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Total $1929 78
The inventory for supplies on hand is as follows :
Construction department, Jan. 1, 1913. $1843 53
1912. 1103 53
Increase.
..
$740 00
Jobbing Department, Jan. 1, 1913
$ 516 98
" 1912.
421 23
Increase. $95 75
The following table will show the income receipts and the outgo payments of the Plant for the year ending Dec. 31, 1912, as they apply to the method of finding out the cost of street lighting for the year :
OUTGO.
Maintenance.
$14954 75
Interest paid ...
2530 00
Depreciation paid
2040 00
$19524 75
INCOME.
Sale of light.
$12557 45
66 power.
2000 00
Miscellaneous receipts
256 70
Profit on jobbing.
570 38
Increase in jobbing inventory
95 75
$15480 28
Balance
$4044 47
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MUNICIPAL LIGHT REPORT.
The balance of $4044.47 divided by 829, the number of street lights, gives $4.87 each as the cost of lighting our street lights for the year. This includes every item of cost to be charged against the street lights. If the interest charge and the depreciation charge were ommitted, instead of being a balance against the street lights, the result would be that the streets would have been lighted without expense, and a profit of $525.53 shown without any appro- priation from the town.
The following table shows the number of services connected with the plant at the close of each year since the start:
Yea."
No.
Gain
1904.
.69
1905
105.
36
1906
131 .26
1907.
170
41
1908
195
25
1909
218
23
1910
269
.51
1911
323.
.54
1912.
362.
.39
The total for light sold for 1912 was
· $12557 45
66
66
66
1911 10159 42
Increase for 1912
$2398 03
The year 1912 gives additional evidence that the municipal lighting plant in Ipswich has been a great success. Perhaps this can best be shown by giving the figures as to what the result would be if Ipswich was having the same number of street lights supplied by a private company. A carefull study of the prices paid to pri- vate companies for the same class of lighting as we have in Ipswich, warrants me in saying that $12.00 for each light for a year would be below the price usually charged. 829 street lights at $12.00 each for one year, would mean that an appropriation of $9948 00
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would have to be made to pay the bill. This is $5903.53 more than it cost the town for this service this year. Pretty good evidence that it pays to own the plant. In addition to this, our people are getting electricity for lighting at 12 cents per K. W. hour, with 10 per cent. off and free renewals of lamps.
I am pleased to report that the original plant is in good con- dition, and that the new plant installed last year has met every test and is a success. The new engine stands for economy, as is clearly shown by the fact that the fuel bill for 1912, running 24 hours a day, is only $6868.21, as compared with $5385.56 for 1911, when the average running time was only 12 hours a day, with the price of coal higher in 1912 than it was in 1911.
Your attention is called to the increasing demand for power, and to the desirability of fixing a power rate under which we would be enabled to add materially to the income of the plant by selling current for power through the day when we can well afford to do it at a reduced rate. I recommend that a power rate be established to take effect April 1, 1913.
The good will of the citizens, the absolute fairness of my fellow commissioners and the loyalty of the men in the department, has made a combination very pleasing to me, and I desire to extend my sincere thanks to all. As a believer in the public ownership of public utilities, I have enjoyed the work in this department for the past ten years and the opportunity it has given me of demonstrating that a municipal lighting plant can, and does, give the people better and cheaper service than they would get from a privately owned plant.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. A. SCHOFIELD, Manager.
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MUNIC PAL LIGHT REPORT.
TREASURERS REPORT.
CHARLES W. BAMFORD, Treasurer, Electric Light Department, Town of Ipswich.
DR.
To cash on hand, Jan. 1912, To amount received :-
$79 10
Commercial lighting
$11908 07
Town buildings
341 85
Jobbing
1400 67
Power
2000 00
Appropriations :- Interest
2530 00
Notes
1750 00
Maintenance
1500 00
Depreciation
2040 00
Notes .
2000 00
Pole rent.
166 70
Insurance dividends
90 00
$27,727 29
CR.
$27,806 39
By paid
Commissioners' orders
$20390 48
Notes
1750 00
Interest on loan
2530 00
Certification of notes
6 00
$26,676 48
Balance Jan., 1913
1129 91
$27,806 39
The Treasurer has the following bills of the Electric Light Department for collection:
Light.
$2046 88
Jobbing
370 64
$2417 52
ELECTRIC LIGHT LOAN.
HELD BY
Amount. Rate. Date of Issue. No. Notes.
Maturities.
Chelsea Savings Bank.
$14,000
4
Oct.
1
1903 14 notes 9-23 1913-9126 inc.
Malden Savings Bank. .
2,000
4
2 notes 24-25 1927-1928 inc.
Sinking Fund, Ipswich Water Dept.
3,000
4
3 notes 26-281929-1931 inc.
Malden Savings Bank ...
5,000
4
Dec. 15
1903
5 notes 29-33 1915-1919 inc.
Sinking Fund, Ipswich Water Dept. .
2,000
4
1904
2 notes 34-35 1920-1921
Holliston Savings Bank ...
4,000
4
.
1,
1905| 4 notes 40-43 1926-1929 inc.
Sinking Fund, Ipswich Water Dept.
2,000
4
Dec. 15,
1906 2 notes 44-45 1930-1931
Cemetery Trust Funds, Ipswich.
2,000
4
June 15,
1907
2 notes 46-47 1932-1933
North Avenue Savings Bank ..
2,000
4
June 30, 1908|
2 notes
1-2 1934-1935
Malden Savings Bank.
2,000
4
June 15,
1909 2 notes
1-21936-1937
Sinking Fund, Ipswich Water Dept ...
2.000
4
June 30,
1910 4 notes 21-24 1931-1934 inc.
Five Cent Savings Bank, Lynn .....
5.500
4
Oct. 1,
191011 notes 3-131913-1923 inc.
Sinking Fund, Ipswich Water Dept ....
3,500
4
7 notes 14-201924-1930 inc.
Ipswich Savings Bank ...
5,500
4
Dec. 30, 191022 notes 3-24 1913-1914 inc.
Sinking Fund, Ipswich Water Dept ....
2,000
4
June 29, 1912 1 note
24
$100.00 ea.yr.
George A. Schofield . .
2,000
4
June 29, 1912 1 note
28
1913
Total.
$62,500
MUNICIPAL LIGHT REPORT.
4 notes 36-39 1922-1925 inc.
State of Massachusetts.
4,000
4
May
..
·
·
27
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COMMISSIONERS' REPORT.
To the citizens of Ipswich: Gentlemen,
The Water and Municipal Lighting Commissioners submit their nineteenth annual report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1912.
WATER DEPARTMENT.
Your attention is called to the various tables giving an account in detail of the expenditures and receipts of this department for the past year.
We estimate the receipts for 1913 to be $18,000.00 and the ex- penses for Sinking Fund $4022.17 for interest $7320.00 for mainten- ance $4500.00.
For the years 1911 and 1912 we paid a total of $7686.13 into the sinking fund from the receipts of this department, also $14,760 interest on the debt. We also did away with any appropriation for hydrant service for fire protection, saving an annual appropriation of over $2000 to the tax payers. We are prepared to continue this policy this year and we do not ask for any appropriation for this department.
The following table shows the assets and liabilities of the Water Department Jan. 1, 1913.
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ASSETS.
LIABILITIES.
Value of Plant, (cost) $211,460 89 Bonds
$160,000 00
Water rates due
4222 21 Notes
23,000 00
Services due
226 27 Bal. excess of assets
103,797 18
Cash on hand
4231 82 -
Cash in Sinking Fund
66,655 99
Total
$286,797 18
Total
$286,797 18
Of this excess of assets $43.164.23 has been appropriated for note and bond payments, the balance $60,632.95, is actual earnings from sales, premiums and interest.
No depreciation has been deducted from the cost, as we believe that the actual value of the plant, based on its earning capacity, would be more, rather than less, than the cost of construction.
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT.
The report of the manager of this department has taken up in detail the record of the year, and we are pleased to join with him in congratulaiing the citizens on the excellent showing made.
We indorse his recommendation for the fixing of a power rate, and will announce the rate determined on, before April 1, 1913.
We call your attention to the fact, that in a year when we looked for a possible deficiency, on account of the increased expense for fuel and an extra engineer and fireman owing to the establish- ing of the 24 hour service, we find instead of a deficiency, that we have over $1000 more cash balance than last year, and in addition to that we have purchased and paid for a new motor truck which is of great benefit to our plant.
The following table will show the asset and liabilities of the department, Jan. 1, 1913.
ASSETS.
LIABILITIES.
Value of Plant (cost)
$87,599 77 Notes
$62,500 00
Dve from light
2,046 88 Excess of assets
29,164 18
Due from jobbing
370 64
Material and supplies
516 98
Cash
1,129 91
Total
$91,664 18
Total
$91,664 18
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MUNICIPAL LIGHT REPORT.
In closing we desire to thank the citizens for the confidence they have shown in the members of this board, which confidence is indicated by the fact that each member is promptly re-elected as his term expires. We hope that the account of our stewardship will convince you that we have appreciated your kindness and the confidence you have shown in our administration of the affairs of these two highly important departments.
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE A. SCHOFIELD, GEORGE H. W. HAYES, WILLIAM H. RAND,
Water and Municipal Light Commission.
Ipswich, Jan. 1913.
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
I have examined the accounts of the Clerk of the Water and Electric Light Commissioners and find them to agree with the Town Treasurer. I have found bills with vouchers for all payments. I also have examined carefully the different Securities and Deposit Books which comprise the Sinking Fund and find them correct, making the total Sinking Fund $66,655.99.
ARTHUR H. WALTON, Auditor.
Annual Report
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
Town of Ipswich
MA
ICH
S .
PS
U.S A
1634
THE BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 1687
For the Year 1912
Charles G. Hull, Printer. 27 Market Street, Ipswich, Mass. 1913.
School Committee
George H. W. Hayes George W. Tozer
Term Expires 1915
1914
George E. MacArthur
66
1913
Charles G. Hull
66
1913
Organization
George H. W. Hayes, Chairman. John P. Marston, Superintendent Charles E. Goodhue, Clerk.
Special
Dr. George E. MacArthur, Charles E. Goodhue, George H. W. Hayes, W. B. Atkinson, J. R. Richards. School Physician Purchasing Agent Labor Certificates Truant Officers G. H. W. Hayes, George W. Tozer, Dr. G. E. MacArthur, General Repairs Committee on Cooking and Sewing Charles G. Hull, Committee on Manual Training
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General Report
The School Committee herewith submits to the citizens of the Town its annual report:
In the year 1909 the Committee established a course of study in the graded schools which enabled the work done therein to be accomplished in eight years instead of the nine years, which prior to that time had been required to com- plete the course in such schools. This change was made under the direction of the present Superintendent of Schools who had considered that by more diligent attention given to the course of instruction by the teachers and by the more painstaking application of the work by the pupils one year could be saved in the school life of those attending the graded schools. At the time the change was made consider- able opposition was manifested to the action of the Board, and some doubts existed in the minds of the citizens as to the advisability of this action. After four years experience the success of the plan is assured and it is doubtful if the town would consent to a return to the former system.
The Committee would allude in the above statement as an illustration of what they have attempted to do for the benefit of the schools and for the citizens of the town. While
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the various members of the Committee are not always unan- imous as to the advisability of changes in, or additions to, the school courses we would, however, state that when a ma- jority of the Committee have decided upon a question the entire body has been a unit in its desire to have the proposi- tion accomplished and the members of 'the Board have ren- dered to each other great assistance in the work of the Com- mittee.
During the past year the Committee have added to the school course a practical course of study consisting of manual training, cooking and sewing, the manual training being in charge of Winfield W. Lunt and the department of cooking and sewing in charge of. A. Madeline Hawkes. By the adoption of the system of an eight year course of study in the graded schools and of the rule that no child should be admitted to the graded schools unless such child should have attained the age of six years prior to the first day of January following the date of the opening of the school year in September, we are eanbled to use the Manning Street School for the domestic science department, which building has been so altered and remodeled that it makes a good building for such work.
The Committee were then obliged to provide a place for the teaching of manual training, and for some time were un- able to find a suitable building in which this work could be carried on. After due consideration it was decided that the building in the rear of the Warren Street School, on the . Warren Street Schoolhouse lot, might be remodeled, which was done, a considerable part of the interior work being done by the scholars, and has been made into a very substantial and excellent building for work to be carried on therein. The pupils have shown much interest in these departments. The attendance has been excellent, and the Committee feel that
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these departments will be of great practical benefit to the pupils in their after life. Dignity is given to manual labor. Theoretical and practical work go hand in hand and we are strongly of the opinion that when the pupils leave the schools they will not be ashamed to acknowledge that they can earn their living by the performance of labor. 6 We rec- ommend that these departments be made and become a per- manent part of the school work.
No sessions of the evening schools have been held during the past year. The town did not in the annual town meet- ing vote to establish an evening school, and while in the school appropriation it was estimated that should the even- ing schools be opened a certain amount of the school appro- priations would be required to pay the expenses of such schools, at a special meeting held at a later date the town decided to indefinitely postpone the establishment of such schools. If the evening schools should be continued the Committee would call the attention of the town to the fact that provisions must be made for the teaching of a large number of minors between the ages of sixteen and twenty- one years of age, as their attendance at the evening school is compulsory in such cities and towns obliged to, or do, maintain evening schools.
There have been some changes in the teaching force of the graded schools and while we regret the loss of the teach- ers who resigned their positions, we feel that we have se- cured capable teachers to fill the positions thus vacated. We invite the parents to visit the schools and ascertain for them- selves the work that is going on.
And again we invite the citizens to attend the meeting of the School Committee to register their complaints and criticisms. if they have any, with the School Committee, make such suggestions as you may desire for the betterment
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of the educational facilities, and you may rest assured that the Committee would appreciate such co-operation and as- sistance as you may care to render them.
Respectfully submitted,
George H. W. Hayes
George W. Tozer George E. MacArthur Charles G. Hull
School Committee
CLASS IN SEWING
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Education
General Expenses
I P Marston, superintendent
560
J P Marston. expense
3 30
N E Tel & Tel Co, telephone
20 63
Hull & Lunt, printing
71
Byron-Hubbard Co
11
Ipswich Post Office
14 59
G H W Hayes, school report
10
G H W Hayes, labor certificates
86 50
Warren Boynton, truant officer
40
C E Goodhue, telephone
1 10
W B Atkinson, truant officer
40
G W Smith, school census
30 50
D A Grady, team
4
J R Richards, truant officer
30
$911 73
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Teachers' Salaries
Burt E Robinson
$820
Emma G Gardner
400
Alice E Perkins
650
Helen W Smith
284 24
Ruth Adams
629 60
Stella C Adams
246
Elsie Johnson
258
Nellie T Sullivan
464
Katharine F Sullivan
650
Ethel M Evans
276
Lena Jenkins
270
L Maude Schofield
464
Isabel Arthur
650
Elsie C Green
426
Grace S Phillips
438
Clara F Managhan
426
Annie P Wade
438
Alice G Burnham
410
Annie M Ryan
246
Augusta N Appleton
462
Gertrude L Murphy
420
Eva A Willcomb
464
Anna R Hartford
464
Elsie M Baker
270
Marion Perley
400
Lena M Perkins
236
Arthur H Tozer
400
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Florence H Russell
350
Mrs W E Tobin
4 30
Hilda Joyce
194 35
Cora H Jewett
231 50
Emma W Brown
180
Bertha Porter
180
Alice V Leonard
180
Ruth Carens
180
W W Lunt
320
A Madeline Hawkes
240
Katharine C Baker
9
-
-- $13,630 99
Evening School
1
--
Katharine F Sullivan
$ 4 00
Nellie T Sullivan
4 00
L Maude Schofield .
4 00
Lena Jenkins
4 00
Ethel M Evans
4 00
Elsie Johnson
4 00
Anna R Hartford
4 00
Elsie C Green
4 00
J P Marston
4 00
James Kintjos
29 00
Peter George
29 00
--- $94 00
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Text Books and Supplies
J A Blake
$ 11 25
Edward E Babb & Co
502 59
Kenney Bros & Wolkins
94 88
C S Tyler
10 40
W P Reilly
2 56
American Express Co
5 47
People's Express Co
17 45
A N Palmer Co
17 88
A D Mallard
20 85
JE Hull
49 80
C E Merrill Co
12 35
B E Robinson
98 76
J L Hammatt Co
45 69
C F Winchester
13 77
E E Currier
25
H R Turner Co
1 15
C H Hunt & Co
7 50
Ipswich Chronicle
48
L E Knott Co
134 94
Hobbs, Warren Co
6 80
The Soapanol Co
33
Ginn & Co
47 68
FW Martin
33 85
George Haskell
1 50
American Book Co
103 43
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-
Allyn & Bacon
60 40
L E Willcomb
3 16
B G Hiller
43 52
D C Heath & Co
60 29
Holden Book Co
6
G F .Johnson & Co
29 50
Wadsworth, Howland Co
7 95
Houghton, Mifflin Co
7 92
Silver, Burdett & Co
72 80
B H Sanborn
98 94
Tozer & Starkey
15 11
Milton, Bradley Co
4 36
H W Phillips
10 50
CG Hull
12 25
G H Lord
1 20
N J Bolles
50
- $1,756 20
-
Transportation
Highway Department Bay State Street Ry Co D A Grady
$375
450
188
$1,013 00
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Janitors
John H Baker
$275
F B Saunders
490
Smith E Hayes
270
Joseph Johnson
270
E L Darling .
165
James Ryan
40
Albert C Elwell
46
B R Horton
32
G W Smith
30
Cora H Jewett
10
-
- $1,628 00
Fuel and Light
D Sidney Perley
$ 28
C L Lovell
424 25
C Chester Caldwell
280 40
J R Small 4
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George Fall
315 31
Ipswich Gas Light Co
21 80
J J Ryan
6
$1,079 76
Buildings and Grounds
-
Trustees Manning School Fund
$1,900
George A Whipple
5
George H Lord
3 75
· J W Goodhue
175 99
P F Bussell
41 25
Eben S Hutchins
31 30
Water Department
102 71
P P Kierce
14 50
J H Lakeman
199 70
George E Robbins Co
75
James Ryan
6
B W Woodward
433 48
A I Savory
13 10
A Staniford
101 18
James Small
3
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Turner Hill Farm
2 50
J B Mitchell
64
C L Stevens
12 40
W N Prescott
10 17
W H Rand
75 09
J A Blake
14 80
T P Thomas
.2 68
Herbert Choate
2
Oscar A Pickard
7 50
William Goditt
114 93
M W Chadbourne
127 67
Silas Crooker
2
J W Nourse
1
John H Baker
6 25
G H Brocklebank
5 40
TG Gauld
6 25
J F Sullivan
3 50
Tozer & Starkey
1 13
J H Hardy
42 25
Est S F Canney
677 36
G A Tibbetts
8 00
A H Plouff
39 20
R L Purinton
6 20
C F Chapman
30
H A Pickard & Son
739 53
Susan E Horton
3
C L Lovell
24 50
William P Ross
2 50
Leander Goditt
24
W A Burnham
6 75
V H Bouten
2 30
Edmund Wile
26 25
Walter G Brown
15 75
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W A Webber
67 19
C S Tyler
1
A P Hills Co
55
A I Savory
51 05
Manzer & Damon
2 50
Thomas H Reedy
47 90
$5,383 01
Furniture and Furnishings
A C Damon
266 87
Chandler & Barber
260
F R Schaller
9
D .J Foster
1 70
Singer Sewing Machine Co
76 80
G A Ham
70
George Haskell
5 75
Ipswich Gas Light Co
74 03
J F Wippich
4
$768 15
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Medical Inspection
George E MacArthur
$200
Bessie W Marr
20
Partridge & Co
5 95
-
$ 225 95
26,490 79
Balance unexpended
121 41
$26,612 20
Receipts
--
Balance 1911
$ 1,917 14
Appropriation
23,000 00
County of Essex
334 96
Town of Rowley, tuition
864 00
Town of Rowley, tuition
423 86
Miscellaneons
72 24
-- $26,612 20
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Superintendent's Report
To the School Committee of Ipswich,
Gentlemen :-
I am pleased to report that the standard of the schools has been maintained and the course of study has been extended during the school year.
By correlation of studies and intelligent drill on the more important principles, progress has been made without slighting the subjects once regarded as alone necessary to properly equip a pupil for life.
In the eighteenth century the roads of our town were not suited to the motor vehicles of today. No more were the schools of that century, which taught "The three R's," adequate to teach the future citizen to deal intelligently with the great social and economic problems which have kept pace with the wonderful inventions of the age.
With each successive generation come questions to be settled, primarily, by the people. Interstate commerce, trusts, international arbitration, single tax, public sanitation
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municipal ownership, labor unions, socialism, eugenics and many other important subjects must be dealt with intelli- gently and in youth the mind must be trained to logical thinking. The schools of the past would be wholly unfit to meet the demands of the present day.
The man of the past did not appreciate the inestimable value of an ideal, hygienic school-house for the betterment of the health and I may even say the morals of the pupils. Nor did he correctly estimate the relative importance of the school department among the other town departments.
A boy or girl who reads the best literature will acquire a taste for good reading. The modern readers are made up of extracts from the very best.
Without education one is shut out from many many of the joys and much of the enthusiasm which go to make up a full living.
He is like the man about whom my college classmate told me. My classmate had been an earnest student of his- tory, and was. for the first time, visiting Italy and Greece. When he came to the battlefield of Marathon his emotions were unbounded and he exclaimed to his companion, a newly made acquaintance, "This is Marathon!" To my friend's surprise the man said "What do they manufacture here?" Later my friend learned that his companion was a million- aire manufacturer in America. I leave it to you to say which man was getting the most out of life.
Critics of our public schools say we give the pupils "Just a smattering of many studies." While this may be true it is no less true that in most cases we certainly arouse an in- terest which later may open up new avenues of interest and knowledge,
Critics of our public schools also say pupils "Cannot spell and reckon like those of generations past " School
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examination papers of 1846 have been given to pupils of the present day with the result that these pupils far excelled, in percentage of correct answers, the pupils of 1846.
It is my opinion that the public schools of today afford opportunities for the making of useful, industrious citizens of moral, intelligent lives such as the times demand and should receive the full and hearty support of the public.
In the High School we have a course of study of which the State Board of Education approves. In 1895 less than sixty pupils were enrolled in this school. This year one hundred and sixty-one are enrolled. Of this number the town of Rowley sends thirty-three. Ipswich has one hun- dred and twenty-eight pupils, showing that our school meets a popular demand.
I most earnestly suggest that typewriting and stenog- raphy be introduced as I am convinced that this will greatly benefit those who wish to study to fit themselves for office work.
This year we have introduced Manual Training, sewing and cooking. These all interest many pupils and I be- lieve the introduction of these branches is the most progres- sive change that has been made for many years. Boys of all grades beginning with the fifth are required to take Manual Training once a week. Girls in all grades beginning with the fifth take sewing and girls in the seventh and eighth grades take cooking also. For High School pupils all these studies are elective. I highly commend the interest of the pupils in this work.
We were very fortunate in securing Mr. W. W. Lunt as teacher in Manual Training. Mr. Lunt has had long ex- perience and obtains very satisfactory results.
Miss Hawkes the teacher of Domestic Science graduated from Framingham Normal School June 1912. During her
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course there she specialized in this work. She came to us with most excellent testimonials from the principal of this school and her work surely justifies them.
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