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COURSE OF STUDIES.
The following is a schedule of studies adopted by the Committee, to be pursued in the Grammar and High Schools.
This course of study has been carefully considered and compared with that of other towns, and, we are confident that it will be well suited to the wants of our schools.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Reading, selections from Sargent's Fourth Reader ; Grammar, Quackenbos' small, complete ; Geography, Warren's Common School complete ; Arithmetic, Wal- ton's to Ratio; History of the United States through the Revolution ; Mental Arithmetic, Walton's complete.
HIGH SCHOOL.
1st. Term, Ist. Year. Review and complete Arith- metic and Grammar, Warren's Physical Geography commenced.
2d. Term, Ist. Year. Algebra, Robinson's commenced ; Physical Geography complete; History, Worcester's General commenced ; Mental Arithmetic, Stoddard's.
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1st. Term, 2d. Year. Algebra complete ; Latin, Hark- ness Grammar and Reader commenced, or French ; Philosophy, Steel's commenced.
2d. Term, 2d. Year. Geometry, Davis' commenced ; Latin or French and Philosophy continued; Chemistry, Steel's, commenced ; Philosophy continued.
Ist. Term 3d. Year. Geometry complete; Latin or French continued ; Chemistry complete; Botany, Gray's, commenced.
2d. Term 3d. Year. Astronomy, Steel's, commenc ed ; Latin or French ; Physiology, Jarvis' commenced.
Ist. Term 4th. Year. Geology, Steel's commenced ; Moral Philosophy, Latin or French.
2d. Term, 4th. Year. Rhetoric, Whatley's ; French or Latin ; Arithmetic and Grammar reviewed.
Weekly Exercises in Reading, Spelling, Penmanship, Book-keeping, Declamation, Composition, &c.
POND PRIMARY SCHOOL. MISS ELLA TORREY, TEACHER.
This is Miss Torrey's first experience in teaching. Though lacking somewhat in animation and vivacity, she has approved herself as a faithful and efficient teacher; and under her tuition the school has been well conducted.
POND INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
MISS SARAH L. PORTER, TEACHER.
At the beginning of the year, Miss Porter was pro- moted from the Primary to the Intermediate School. The interest and energy, by which her management of the Primary School was characterized, were none the less instrumental in rendering her conduct of the
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higher grade school peculiarly satisfactory and suc- > cessful.
Her readiness to attend to, and apply suggestions of improvement, her precision and distinctness of enun- ciation, her thoroughness and skill in instruction have resulted in producing in her pupils a marked improve- ment during the year
POND GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
MRS. ANNA M. BROOKS, MISS S. L. BARNES, TEACHERS.
This school was taught, during the first term, and a few weeks of the second, by Mrs. Brooks.
The experience of her past instruction gave every reason to expect a successful school under her care. In this expectation we were not disappointed, and have only to regret the necessity that compelled her resignation at the beginning of the fall term.
Her place was filled by Miss Barnes, who completed the year.
Under the persuasive directions of this teacher, the school continued to improve, so that, at the annual examination, there appeared marked evidences of thoroughness and attention. The qualifications of Miss Barnes, as a teacher, lead us to predict for the future of this school, provided she continues as its in- structor, with the co-operation of those who attend, a degree of advancement that shall render it what it is designed to become, a thorough Grammar School.
EAST SCHOOL.
MISSES VICTORIA P. WILD, SARAH ALLEN, TEACHERS.
Miss Victoria P. Wild continued the instruction of this school with the same energy, singleness of purpose,
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and success, which have attended her labors in pre- vious years, until near the close of the Summer term, .. when impaired health absolutely requiring rest, she reluctantly, and to the regret of the committee re- signed her position.
We hope that recovered health may soon enable her to resume the calling for which her experience and qualifications are so well adapted.
Miss Sarah Allen, who has had some years experi- ence in this town and abroad, and who is well qualified by education for a teacher, was appointed to fill the place made vacant by the resignation of Miss Wild. She has used her best efforts to discharge the import- ant trust committed to her charge.
IRON-WORKS GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
MISS MARTHA READ, TEACHER.
Miss Read has been teacher of this school for three or four years, and is entitled to very great credit for the diligent, energetic, and conscientious manner in which she has discharged the important trust commit- ted to her care. Vivacity, studiousnesss and accuracy are characteristics of the school. Substantial progress has been made in all the studies pursued in the school during the past year.
Nor has she been remiss in her efforts to aid in the moral as well as the intellectual developement of her pupils.
IRON-WORKS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
MISSES MARY A. AVERY, MARY SCOLLARD, TEACHERS.
Miss Avery taught during the summer term, mani- festing great interest in the advancement and well be-
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ing of her pupils. Ill health compelled her resigna- tion, when Miss Scollard was transferred from the Pri- mary school to fill the vacancy thus occasioned. Miss Scollard has done as well as could reasonably be ex- pected in a school not easily governed; composed of children at the most restless period of life, and con- fined to seats and forms, of the old style made for scholars very much older than those that comprise this school.
IRON-WORKS FIRST PRIMARY SCHOOL. MISS ANNIE L. BUMPUS, TEACHER,
This school is composed of what was a part of the Primary school, previous to fitting up the room now occupied by them, in accordance with the recom- mendation of the school committee, in their last annu- al report.
This is a very pleasant, orderly, quiet school; in the securing of which, the convenient arrangements of the school-room have, in no small degree, aided the con- scientious, untiring efforts of the teacher. This school under its present management has made excellent progress.
IRON-WORKS PRIMARY.
MISSES KATIE P. BISHOP, MARY SCOLLARD, TEACHERS.
Miss Scollard having been transferred to the Inter- mediate, Miss Bishop was appointed teacher of this school. She has shown great fitness for her position. Evidently feeling an interest in her pupils and their progress, she has adopted appropriate methods to se- cure that end, and has succeeded. And the promise
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now is that increased experience will increase her usefulness.
MIDDLE STREET SCHOOL.
MISS E. M. THOMPSON, TEACHER.
Miss Thompson has taught this school several years with very satisfactory results. Her government has been of the right kind; parental, firm and kind, free from arbitrariness. Knowing what she teaches, she has known how to teach others.
She is entitled to the grateful consideration of her pupils and the community which she has so faithfully served.
UNION PRIMARY SCHOOL.
MISS AVIS A. THAYER, TEACHER.
This school is in a very satisfactory condition, ex- cept that a few of the oldest scholars have been absent so much of the term, that they not only appear to disadvantage, but they prevent the progress of their classes, and it may be necessary to put them into the lower classes.
UNION INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
MISS JOANNA W. PENNIMAN, TEACHER.
In this school the studies have been pursued wtih great thoroughness, especially the mental and written arithmetic of the first class. The reading on a part of a small per cent. of the school is somewhat faulty.
Its closing examination was one of its very best.
The singing, gymnastics, and declamation exercises of this and the primary department were exceedingly
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interesting, and as they tend not only to physical and mental improvement, but are promotive of happiness and good order, we hope to see such exercises in all our schools.
UNION GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
MISS JENNIE F. HALL, TEACHER.
The order of the school has steadily improved, but little more could be expected in this direction. The Teacher labored to have her classes thorough in their studies, but from want of proper appreciation of the teachers efforts on the part of the scholars, and of co-operation on the part of many of the parents, the advancement of the school in some respects was not up to our expectations.
Possibly the teacher had not the good will of her school so fully as desirable, but might she not have had, if parents had interested themselves in the right direction ? And are not the children the greatest loosers from this want of just co-operation.
We believe 80 per cent. of those from this school who were examined for admmission to the High School would have been successful, could the teacher and scholars have received the stimulus of right feel- ing and action from parents. If but 40 per cent. in- stead of 80, succeeded, we ask again to whom comes the heaviest loss ?
SOUTH EAST SCHOOL.
MISS CLARA E. THAYER, TEACHER.
Considering this, Miss Thayer's first year of teach- ing, the committee think she succeeded very well.
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The school has not appeared so well on examination for several years, whether in the hands of teacher or committee. We say this the more freely as at the beginning of the year the management and appear- ence of the school was not quite satisfactory.
WEST SCHOOL.
MISS INEZ A. PENNIMAN, TEACHER.
The committee visited this school quite often and are satisfied that Miss Penniman has labored faithful- ly to advance her school, and with considerable suc- cess. At no time when present has the school ap- peared very disorderly, though it has not been quite so orderly as desirable. With her ample literary qual- ifications and the year of experience she has had, we feel that she can hardly fail of carrying on the school successfully.
THE SOUTH WEST SCHOOL,
Under the care of MRS. MARY H. MARSTON, has, we think, made decided improvement. Mrs. Marston, by faithful, patient, and untiring effort for years, has well earned the reputation she possesses, as a success- full teacher.
SOUTH SCHOOL.
MISSES MARY C. HOWE, S. A. CHILDS, LOUISE BRONSDON, TEACHERS.
This school was taught during the first term by Miss Mary C. Howe. This was her first experience in teaching. So far as her qualifications as a scholar are concerned she was well fitted to teach ; but, although her efforts to maintain good order were constant and
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untiring, yet, owing to the disposition of some of the scholars, she was unable to secure such obedience as to render her teaching successful. According to her the utmost faithfulness in the discharge of her duties, we can but view it as a matter of regret, that the be- havior of her scholars was such as to constrain her to resign her position at the close of the term ; thus de- priving the school of one who under more favorable circumstances, we have no doubt, would have been successful. During a part of the year from September 5th. to November 18th, the school was taught by Miss S. A. Childs, a teacher of some experience; under her management, the school showed a great improvement in deportment and attention to studies. Her quiet but firm control, while holding those disposed to . be disobedient in check, yet uniting with an attractive and lady like manner, have shown her to be a capable teacher. Owing to a misunderstanding with reference to the length of the second term, the Committee were disappointed, by the resignation of Miss Childs, at the Thanksgiving Recess, in their ex- pectation of retaining her services during the year.
The third teacher of this school Miss Louise Brons- don, presented herself in reply to an advertisement of the Committee, and by examination showed herself to be a very thorough scholar. Although, her disciplin- ary faculties lack the culture of experience, and her management of the school, has in a measure, been wanting in good order, yet the school has, on the whole under her administration, made some progress.
In reviewing the history of the schools during the past year it is the opinion of the Committee that con- siderable progress has been made, but not in all cases
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so much as we could desire to have been made that the teachers have generally shown themselves to be effici- ent and faithful. That the condition of the schools at the present time is in a measure satisfactory while the promise for the coming year, provided their be a libe- ral support from the town, and a hearty co-operation from the parents is very good.
IRON-WORKS SCHOOL HOUSE.
The room occupied by this school was furnished with the most approved and convenient desks and seats to be found in the market, out of the appropria- tion of five hundred dollars voted by the town for that purpose, at the last annual town meeting.
No school room in town excells it in the air of comfort and convenience of its appointments. Its single desks and seats, twenty inches long, while allowing the schol- ars to be seperated from each other at a sufficint dis- tance to prevent easy communication, allow them suffi- cient space to change their position without injury to themselves, or disturbance to their neighbors.
These seats are a decided improvement upon stools or the old style of forms and benches generally used.
THE POND SCHOOL HOUSE.
A school-house containing four rooms, and a space for a hall above, with well arranged conveniences ercted at a cost of about $14,000, was completed at the beginning of the fall term. But after having been occupied two days by the schools, on the morning of September 7th, from some unknown and so far as we have been able to discover, uninvestigated cause, it was burnt to the ground. The schools were obliged to return again to the old shells, that have, for some
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time past, stood as apologetic substitutes for school houses.
Some slight repairs have been made on these, suffi- cient to render them endurable, but as they stand in their present condition we are confident, that, when duly considered we need no more powerful arguments to insure a prompt and energetic action, on the part of all our citizens, boasting nothing higher than humane- ness, even to supplant at the earliest possible day these wretched structures by a building adapted to the present and growing wants of the times.
SOUTH WEST SCHOOL HOUSE.
Blinds were provided for this school house, which supply a long complained of need.
HIGH SCHOOL HOUSE.
The rooms under the Town Hall occupied by the High School have, until the present year, been desti- tute of blinds. But under the General Statute, Chap. 38, Sect. 33, " That in any town, containing five hund- red families in which a school is kept for the benefit of all the inhabitants as before provided, the school committee shall perform the like duties in relation to such school, the house where it is kept, and the supply of all things necessary therefor, as the prudential com- mittee may perform in a school district." Your com- mitte proceeded to supply this lack, and the much needed blinds were put in place. Some slight repairs with the addition of another stove, complete the improvements made on these well appointed rooms.
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TRUANT LAWS.
We would call attention to the fact that there is considerable truancy in some portions of the town ; and we would recommend under the General Statute, Chapter 207, 1862, Section 1. which requires that "Each city and town shall make all needful provisions and arrangements concerning habitual truants and also concerning children wandering about in the streets or public places of any city or town, having no lawful occupation or business, not attending school and growing up in ignorance, between the ages of seven and sixteen years; and shall also make all such by-laws respecting such children as shall be deemed most conducive to their welfare and the good order of such city or town; and there shall be annexed to such by-laws suitable penalties not exceeding twenty dollars, for any one breach : provided, that said by-laws shall be approved by the superior court sitting in any county in the Commonwealth," that a committee be appointed to draft a form of laws suited to enforce attendance upon school: and that these laws be adopted by the town.
We would also recommend that an appropriation of not more than fifty dollars, be made by the town, to be at the disposal of the teacher of the High School, for the purchase of philosophical apparatus for the use of the School.
L. WHEATON ALLEN, ALVERDO MASON, NOAH TORREY, A. S. MORRISON, T. H. DEARING, EDWARD AVERY.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
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SCHOOLS.
No. Scholars
Summer Term.
No. Scholars
Winter Term.
Av. attendance
Summer Term.
Av. attendance
Winter Term.
No. over 15 yrs
Summer Term.
No. over 15 yrs
Winter Term.
No. under 5 yrs
Summer Term.
Winter Term . No. under 5 yrs
Length of
Length of
Wages per
Month
Wages per
Month
Winter Term.
High School,
60
49
55 1-2
43
21
18
0
0
4
51-4 118,27&37,64 118,27&37,64
Iron Works Grammar,
44
38
34
32
2
2
0
0
33-4
51-10
40
40
Iron Works Intermediate,
48
46
38
35 1-2
0
0
0
0
4
5 1-10
32
32
Iron Works 1st Primary,
38
27 1-4
0
0
0
0
27-20
-
32
Iron Works 2nd Primary,
80
76
49
41
0
0
0
5
A
51-10
32
28
Pond Grammar,
46
41
43
36
0
0
0
0
A
5
40
40
Pond Intermediate,
39
37
33
311-2
1
2
0
0
4
5
32
32
Pond Primary,
45
55
34
40
2
1
4
5
28
28
Union Grammar,
42
37
29
281-2
1
1
0
0
33-4
51-20
40
40
Union Intermediate,
46
43
40 1-4
40
0
0
0
0
4
51-20
32
32
Union, Primary,
60
63
51
55
0
0
6
8
A
5 1-20
32
32
East,
53
61
42
46
0
2
1
0
4
5
40
5
Middle,
27
36
22 1-2
27
0
0
0
0
4
Or
32
32
South East,
27
29
17
20
2
2
2
0
4
or
28
28
South,
29
33
20 1-2
25
0
0
0
1
4
49-10
28
32
South West,
28
26
17
19
2
0
2
0
4
5
32
32
West,
34
28
22 1-4
16 1-2
0
1
1
1
4
2S
28
Total,
708
736
548 563 1-4
29
28
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16
-
-
Summer Term.
Winter Term.
Summer Term.
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REPORT.
. HIGH SCHOOL.
W. H. Knight, teaching,
$ 1200 00
Myra F. Southworth, teaching,
400 00
T. F. Kelley, care of rooms, .
30 00
Joel F. Sheppard, coal, .
65 00
M. Branley, coal, .
41 00
Joseph H. Penniman, fuel,
5 75
John T. Mellus, shavings,
1 05
W. H. Knight, galvanic instruments, &c.,
47 66
P. D. Holbrook & Co., crayons,
1 76
E. Hayward, crayons, &c.,
1 11
$1,793 33
POND SCHOOL.
Sarah L. Barnes, teaching 19 weeks, a $10, . Minnie Palmer, teaching 13 3-5 weeks, a $10, Anna M. Brooks, teaching 5 2-5 weeks, a $10, Rubie Stetson, teaching,
$ 190 00
136 00
54 00
21 00
E. M. Thompson, teaching 38 weeks, a $8, .
304 00
S. Ella Torrey, teaching 38 weeks, a $8, H. H. Dyke, care of house,
3 50
John Sanborn, care of house,
3 00
Frank Thompson, care of house,
2 23
Myron Tilden, care of house, .
4 17
W. A. Torrey, care of house, .
6 29
Stephen C. McCarty, care of house,
7 50
Stephen C. McCarty, sawing wood, Joel F. Sheppard, coal; .
2 25
86 50
M. Branley, coal and wood, .
14 87
304 00
4
H. M. White, coal, .
1 60
Joseph Dyer, wood,
4 00
George White, wood,
3 50
Joseph H. Penniman, fuel,
2 70
P. D. Holbrook & Co., brooms, hooks, &c.,
6 95
E. Hayward, books, crayons, &c., .
6 74
Sarah L. Barnes, repairing clocks,
1 52
$1,166 32
IRONWORKS SCHOOL.
Mary Scollard, teaching 38 weeks, a $8,
$ 304 00
Annie L. Bumpus, teaching 38 weeks, a $8,
304 00
Martha Reed, teaching 38 weeks, a $10,
380 00
Katie P. Bishop, teaching 24 weeks, a $7,' .
168 00
Katie P. Bishop, teaching 14 weeks, a $8,
112 00
B. J. Loring, care of house, .
22 00
Charles Allen, care of house,
29 00
Willie Loring, care of house,
2 00
Mary Renn, cleaning house, .
7 78
A. H. Mason, care of house, .
14 00
Charles Allen, splitting wood,
1 50
J. F. Sheppard, coal,
84 75
Elias Hayward, books and crayons,
4 24
$1,433 27
UNION SCHOOL.
Rebecca H. Holyoke, teaching 36 1-2 weeks, a $10, $ 365 00 .
Joanna W. Penniman, teaching 38 weeks, a $8, .
304 00
Avis A. Thayer, teaching 38 weeks, a $8,
304 00
Victoria P. Wild, teaching 1 week,
10 00
W. W. Mayhew, care of rooms, .
24 75
Charles Holbrook, care of rooms, .
2 00
Joanna W. Penniman, care of rooms, .
9 50
Avis A. Thayer, care of rooms,
15 50
H. Haynes, sawing and splitting wood,
3 00
Joel F. Sheppard, coal, .
77 00
T. H. Dearing, wood, .
7 00
W. W. Mayhew, shavings,
50
Thompson, Bigelow & Brown, books, crayons,
3 10
Prorter Brothers, brooms, &c.,
4 85
5
E. Hayward, books,
84
James S. Holbrook, wood,
.
8 00
$1,139 04
EAST SCHOOL.
Sarah Allen, teaching 38 weeks, a $10,
$ 380 00
John Billings, care of house,
11 40
J. F. Sheppard, coal,
22 00
Joseph Huff, wood,
4 00
Joseph Huff, sawing and splitting wood,
1 00
E. Hayward, books, crayons, &c.,
2 43
$420 88
MIDDLE STREET SCHOOL.
Ida F. Paul, teaching 33 weeks, a $8, .
$ 264 00
Victoria P. Wild, teaching 2 1-5 weeks, a $10,
22 00
J. F. Sheppard, coal, . 23 50
P. D. Holbrook & Co., broom,
38
Francis H. Thayer, care of house,
12 00
Thompson, Bigelow & Brown, books for desk, .
5 14
$327 02
SOUTH EAST SCHOOL.
Clara E. Thayer, teaching 19 weeks, a $8, .
A 152 00
Ella J. Cothell, teaching 10 weeks, a $8, . Bessie Williams, teaching 8 3-5 weeks, a $8, Edgar W. Wild, care of house, ·
80 00
68 80
13 00
Edgar W. Wilder, sawing wood, . .
1 00
P. D. Holbrook, broom, dipper, crayons, &c., E. Hayward, crayons, &c., . ·
1 23
Joseph Huff, wood, sawing and splitting,
33 00
$349 87
SOUTH WEST SCHOOL.
Flora J. Dyer, teaching 34 2-5 weeks, a $7,
$ 240 80
Moses T. Dyer, care of house,
.
.
10 00
84
6
Josiah W. Thayer, wood,
19 50
Morrill Williams, sawing and packing wood, 6 29
P. D. Holbrook & Co., pail, dipper and broom,
97
E. Hayward, crayons, &c., .
1 20
$278 76
SOUTH SCHOOL.
Rubie M. Stetson, teaching 16 weeks, a $7,
$ 112 00
Nettie Snell, teaching 17 weeks, a $8,
136 00
Mary A. Dyer, teaching 5 weeks, a $7,
35 00
Nettie Snell, care of room,
3 50
Herbert White, care of room,
11 50
M. Branley, coal, .
10 38
M. Branley, wood,
3 50
J. F. Sheppard, coal,
20 00
Joseph Dyer, wood, ,
4 00
Edward Hobart, wood, .
3 75
Herbert White, sawing wood,
3 50
P. D. Holbrook & Co., brooms and crayons,
1 61
E. Hayward, crayons, .
30
$345 04
WEST SCHOOL.
E. A. Turnbull, teaching 19 weeks, a $8,
$ 152 00
Inez A. Penniman, teaching,
59 00
Winnie Palmer, teaching 6 weeks, a $8,
48 00
Minnie Brown, teaching 1 week, .
8 00
Charles Hunt, care of house,
15 00
Joel F. Sheppard, coal, .
19 50
S. F. B. Collins, wood, .
2 00
James S. Holbrook, wood, .
4 00
Charles Hunt, sawing and splitting wood, . Thompson, Bigelow & Brown, books for desk, H. M. White, broom,
2 00
5 15
45
$315 10
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EXPENDED ON SCHOOL HOUSES,
by order of School Committee.
Samuel W. King, labor and material, Union,
$ 29 05
American Tablet Co., blackboard, Pond,
8 70
John Sanborn, setting glass, Pond,
1 35
J. Warren Thayer, setting glass, Ironworks, W. T. Burrill, setting glass, Ironworks,
3 00
3 87
H. A. Berry, labor,
10 56
American Tablet Co., blackboard, Middle street, .
4 20
J. W. Thayer, setting glass, Middle street,
3 17
J. W. Thayer, setting glass, South East, American Tablet Co., blackboards, South West, .
4 00
John Hayward, labor and material,
62 33
American Tablet Co., blackboard, High,
30 00
$161 23
EXPENDED ON SCHOOL HOUSES, by order of Building Committee.
Asa French, services as Committee, 1869, .
$ 25 00
F. A. Hobart, services as Committee, 1869, .
25 00
Gideon Thayer, stone work, South East, 1869,
3 00
Gideon Thayer, stone work, Pond, 1869,
4 50
Edward Hobart, stone work, South,
3 25
J. B. Wood, carting, Pond,
18 17
$78 92
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF SCHOOLS.
Seth Mann, 2nd, rent of rooms, Pond, .
$272 50
Noah Torrey, cash paid for key, Pond, .
1 00
S. W. Hollis, lamp,
2 40
Thomas B. Stoddard, setting glass, Pond,
14 35
F. B. Parks, grate, &c., Pond,
2 25
A. F. Trufant, clocks, Ironworks,
13 00
Blake & Alden, settees, Ironworks,
12 00
Boston Journal, advertising, Union,
7 00
Procter Brothers, shovel, &c., Union,
2 50
A. S. Morrison, grate, Union,
80
Harwood Brothers, clock, West, .
5 15
$332 95
1 00
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ALMSHOUSE.
Appraisal Feb. 1, 1871, . $1,750 98
Thomas Penniman, Superintendent, 300 00
Thomas Penniman, cash paid for sundries,
20 38
P. D. Holbrook & Co., groceries,
125 36
H. M. White, groceries, .
80 39
John S. Fraser, groceries,
34 66
Henry Mann, meat,
53 83
D. N. Hollis, meat,
11 12
Levi W. Hobart, grain,
254 77
S. W. Hollis, Treasurer of School Fund rent,
200 00
J. R. Frasier, standing wood,
41 25
D. E. Penniman, standing grass, :
40 00
Ancel Thayer, standing grass,
6 50
Nathan Rosemfeld, dry goods,
13 35
F. B. Parks, stove, .
34 00
J. W. Pierce, coffin, &c. for N. Holbrook,
14 00
Jonathan Thayer, sexton for N. H. Holbrook, C. S. Williams, clothing,
11 00
Albert W. Dyer, killing hogs,
3 50
A. B. Wales, curing ham, ,
1 20
H. D. Thayer, hay,
7 40
W. H. Bradford, fish,
9 55
G. T. Jones, scraps,
7 95
G. H. Richards, clothing,
2 25
Gardner Brothers, lumber,
2 04
A. J. Harrington, seed potatoes,
2 40
D. P. Hayward, soap,
8 03
Parker & Gannett, grass seed, &c.,
5 92
H. H. Thayer, Ironwork,
21 75
Noah Torrey, medical attendance, .
5 00
N. H. Hunt, Overseer,
10 00
Leander Gage, Overseer, .
10 00
Eben Denton, Overseer, .
10 00
$3,102 58
Appraisal Feb. 1, 1872. $1,639,00.
Cash paid Treasurer, .
.
.
324,98.
Cost of poor in Almshouse,
$1,138 60
INMATES OF ALMSHOUSE.
Age.
Days.
Nehemiah Holbrook,
76
197
*William H. Thayer, .
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