Town annual report of Middleborough, Massachusetts 1913, Part 9

Author: Middleboro (Mass.)
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: s.n.
Number of Pages: 198


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890


881


901


950


959


1,016


1,038


1,038


1,049


1,095


1,133


1,188


1,172


1,178


1,218


1,213


1,233


1,211


1,294


Percentage


90.9


92.5


92.8


92.7


91.7


91.7


92.5


90.0


90.8


92.2


93.5


93.7


92.9


92.9


94.7


94


93.5


92.5


94.7


No. half days' absence


28,591


26,623 27,310 27,540 31,136


32,803


34,156


40,957


34,612 35,653


36,498


32,348


38,225


34,856


28,661


28,842


32,048


35,561 27,725


No. cases tardiness


1,710


1,143


1,142


1,131


1,195


1,165


1,188


1,431


1,091


1,521


1,533


1,679


2,254


1,319


1,400


1,381


1,383


1,739


1,521


No. cases dismissal


1,659


1,321


1,483


1,495


1,061


1,107


1,116


1,186


811


1,090


1,116


1,263


1,042


1,206


1,167


1,101


1,191


1,156


1,286


No. cases truancy


12


38


21


19


14


15


26


17


9


14


15


33


44


41


48


21


23


15


23


No. pupils in High School


126


138


133


147


168


174


200


205


200


171


184


181


191


193


200


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STATISTICS OF EACH SCHOOL


YEAR ENDING JUNE 20, 1913


SCHOOL


TEACHER


Grades


Total


Membership


Membership


Average Daily


Attendance


Per Cent. of Attendance


High


Walter Sampson Prin.


10-13


200 183.6|177.7 96.8


Leonard O. Tillson


William A. Harthorne


J. Grace Allen


Irena M. Crawford


Edith H. Rand


Esther E. Morse


Susie W. Eastham


Frank E. Perkins Prin.


8


47


43.


40.


94.6


7


49


47.5


45.


95.3


Edna J. Leland


6


49


46.


43.


93.3


Martinia K. Donahue


6-7-8


53


47.


44.


94.


Hattie M. Jones


5


53


47. 44.9 94.4


Faye H. Deane.


4-5


50


47.


43.


92.


Myrtie A. Shaw


3-4


57 47.9


44.8 93.5


Anne H. Andrews


3


49


43.


40. 37.


93.


Laura A. Bump


S. P.


50


38.6


37.


95.8


Lottie N. Lang


2


50


42.6


39.5 93.


Bessie B. Bailey


3


29


25.5


24.


94.4


Forest Street


Flora M. Clark.


S. P.


51


40.


38.


94.5


Alice M. Ward


1


40


32.


31.


94.5


Mattie M. Bennett


2


54


42.6


40.


94.3


West Side


Mermie S. Miller Prin


5-6-7


44


39.8


37.5 94.3 32.


Annabel Landgrebe


S. P.


37


28.


25.8 92.


Pleasant Street


Myra A. Andrews


Mixed


31


27.


25.


89.5


Plymouth Street


Elsie Landgrebe


25


23.


22. |94.8


Purchade


Alma A. Knowlton


44


39.


35.8 91.2


Thompsonville


Edith M. Eldridge


21


20.9


19.8 93.3


Soulc


Theresa M. Fetherston


36


30.


29.8 96.


Waterville


Maude DeMaranville


40


24.


22.9 95.3


Green


Frances Sawyer


47


41.6


37.8|90.


Thomastown


Fred N. O'Coin


45


36.


34.9|96.


Fall Brook


Alta E. Battles


46


36.


34. 94.4


So. Middleboro


Irene J. Hatch


29


28.


26.4 92.


Highland


Jessie M. Seaver


34


28.


26. 93.


Rock .


Mary R. Burke


65


44.


40.9 92.


France.


Mary C. Azevedo


12


8.8


8.2 93.


Wappanucket


Hazel A. Jones


26


25.


22.6 91.2


93.


Union Street .


Eleanor A. Barden Prin.


1


51


40.


34.


93.


Etta W. Toothaker


1-2


56


46.9


43.8 92.4


Lucy E. Merrihew


3-4


39


Average


School Street.


Isabelle L. Pratt


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GRADUATING EXERCISES MIDDLEBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL.


Town Hall, Friday Evening, June 20, 1913, at Eight O'clock. Choruses accompanied by High School Orchestra. Class Motto: Carpe Diem. Class Colors: Green and Gold. Class Flower: Yellow Rose.


ORDER OF EXERCISES


PRAYER


Rev. Oscar J. Aldrich


SALUTATORY AND ESSAY


Carpe Diem


Madeline Merle Read


RECITATION The Littlest Rebel


Dorothy Miller Nute Love's Old Sweet Song


CHORUS CLASS STATISTICS


Florence Irene Bailey


ORATION


The Race for Federal Jobs


Theodore Francis Mendall


ESSAY


Bread


CHORUS


The Kerry Dance Vocational Training


Fred Bradford Alger


VIOLIN SOLO


Serenade in A


Julian Harvey Witbeck


RECITATION The Spinner in the Sun


Florence Lurana Tinkham I Waited for the Lord


CHORUS CLASS PROPHECY


LeRoy Shaw Dunham


ESSAY AND VALEDICTORY Legends of New England Sara Emma Thurston


SINGING OF CLASS ODE Written by Eleanor Ware Coolidge


PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS


Granville E. Tillson, Chairman of School Committee BENEDICTION


Sarah Elizabeth Quelle


ORATION


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CLASS ODE


(To be sung to the tune of Mendelssohn's "Farewell to the Forest'')


Four years we've worked together, Four years we've shared our play, And now we come to say "Farewell'' On this, our parting day.


We now are facing the great world


With all its toil and stress,


But with our hearts and minds resolved Bravely to stand the test.


Truth now the path discloses To high and better things;


And so make good our motto-


Just this-"Carpe Diem".


In days of joy or sorrow, Let us e'er mindful be


Of our teachers' constant guidance


To the class of ten and three.


And as we're now departing, Dear M. H. S., from thee,


The tie that our four years have made


Will keep us near to thee.


So we shall e'er be faithful, And e'er more hopeful be That you'll be proud of us for aye, Our class of ten and three.


CORPS OF TEACHERS. Walter Sampson, Principal


Leonard O. Tillson Wm. A. Harthorne Jennie G. Allen Edith H. Rand Esther E. Morse Irena M. Crawford Susie W. Eastham


Instructor in Music: Harrison O. Wetherell Instructor in Drawing: Mary L. Cook


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CLASS OF 1913.


CLASSICAL COURSE.


Fred Bradford Alger


Alden Gibson Vaughan


ENGLISH-LATIN COURSE.


Eleanor Ware Coolidge


Parker Henry Kennedy Dorothy Miller Nute


John Coolidge


LeRoy Shaw Dunham


Madeline Merle Read


Mary Albertson Dunham


Sara Emma Thurston


Ethel Elizabeth Fagerberg


Florence Lurana Tinkham


Esther Louise Holloway


Gertrude Loring Vaughn


Julian Harvey Witbeck


ENGLISH COURSE.


Florence Irene Bailey Everett Wallace Clough Arthur Henry Dunham Herbert Elmer Godfrey, Jr. Theodore Francis Mendall


Olive Frances Perkins Sarah Elizabeth Quelle Cora Frances Shaw Albert Wilbur Ward


Horace Clark Wilbur


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GRADUATES OF THE MIDDLEBORO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.


June 20, 1913.


SCHOOL STREET GRAMMAR SCHOOL.


Mildred F. Alden


Rena F. Anderson


Marian Beals


Alice M. Begley


Elizabeth M. Boucher


Margaret V. Byrne


Angelina Candella


Catherine E. Eaton


Irene B. Endres


Hattie M. Fickert


Gertrude B. Fowler


Mildred H. Gates


Malvina Hunt


Ruth P. Jenkins


Doris A. Kelley


Helen T. Mclaughlin


Bessie McLeod


Doris F. Peirce


Marie Quelle


Alice D. Shaw


Aravesta E. Shaw


Florence L. Shaw


Marion F. Turner


Dolph P. Alger


Alfred Carroll


Charles F. Gammons


Maxwell O. Hamblin


Roger P. Jenks


John E. McManus


Alfred J. Massicott


Richmond C. Matthews


Henri F. Palmer


Benjamin F. White


John A. Witbeck


Marion N. Atwood


Rose A. Atwood


Flora Bernier


Elsie M. Cudworth


Adeline M. Giberti


Ida M. Merrihew


Linda B. Howard


Gladys M. Pittsley


Walter W. Black


Edward V. Whitty


George W. King


SOUTH MIDDLEBORO SCHOOL.


Esther B. Shaw Herman E. Russell


Henrietta C. Wilbur


Lewis L. Short


SOULE SCHOOL.


Frances E. Penniman Henry J. Ripley


THOMASTOWN SCHOOL.


Alice C. Roy


Nora E. Macauley


Ezra R. Perkins


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HIGHLAND SCHOOL. Jennie A. Tripp


FRANCE SCHOOL. Doris L. Leonard.


CHANGES OF TEACHERS.


January 1, 1913 to January 1, 1914.


WITHDRAWALS.


Frank E. Perkins, Prin. of School Street School Edna J. Leland, Grade 6, School Street School Isabelle L. Pratt, Grade 7, School Street School Theresa Fetherston, Soule School Mary E. Deane, Wappanucket School


Eva L. Stearns, Grade 7, School Street School Hazel Jones, Wappunucket School Frances Sawyer, Green School


APPOINTMENTS.


Harry L. Edgcomb, Prin. of School Street School Eva L. Stearns, Grade 7, School Street School


Frances Sawyer, Green School


C. Harold Striley, Thomastown School Mabel E. Stearns, Green School Annie M. Golden, Wappanucket School


Hazel Jones, Wappanucket School *P. Henry Lynch, Grade 7, School Street School *Irene L. Sullivan, Grade 2, Forest Street School


*Acting teachers.


TRANSFERALS.


Fred N. O'Coin, from Thomastown to Grade 7 and 8 School Street.


Martinia K. Donahue, from Grade 7 and 8 to Grade 6, School Street.


Erna L. Cornish, from Green to Portable Building Mary C. Azevedo, from France to Soule.


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LIST OF TEACHERS, JANUARY 1, 1914. HIGH SCHOOL.


MAIN STREET NEAR TOWN HALL.


Walter Sampson, Principal 79 Pear Street.


Leonard O. Tillson, 11 North Street.


William A. Harthorne, 41 School Street.


J. Grace Allen, 65 Pearl Street.


Edith H. Rand, 69 Centre Street.


Irena M. Crawford, 23 Webster Street.


Esther E. Morse, 25 Webster Street.


Susie W. Eastham, 3 Rock Street.


SCHOOL STREET GRAMMAR SCHOOL. SCHOOL STREET.


Grade


Harry L. Edgcomb, Prin.


8 48 No. Main Street


Fred N. O'Coin, Sub. "


7-8 68 School Street


*P. Henry Lynch


Martinia K. Donahue


7 46 No. Main Street. 6 4 Reland Street. 56 Everett Street.


Hattie M. Jones


5-6


Faye H. Deane


4 63 Oak Street.


Anne H. Andrews


3 77 So. Main Street.


Myrtie A. Shaw


4-5 Summer Street. 3-4 11 Benton Street.


*Acting teacher.


UNION STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.


UNION STREET.


Grade


Eleanor A. Barden, Prin.


1


85 Pearl Street.


Lottie N. Lang, Sub .- Prin.


2 15 Union Street. 67 Pearl Street.


Laura H. Bump, Sub Primary


Bessie B. Bailey


3 23 Forest Street.


FOREST STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.


FOREST STREET.


Grade


Flora M. Clark, Prin. Sub Primary


18 Forest Street.


Alice M. Ward


1


*Mattie M. Bennett 2


+Irene L. Sullivan 2


*On leave of absence till March 2. *Acting teacher.


18 Pearl Street. 41 School Street. 114 So. Main Street.


Erna L. Cornish


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WEST SIDE GRAMMAR AND PRIMARY SCHOOL.


WEST END AVENUE.


Grade.


Mermie S. Miller, Prin. 6-7-8 248 Centre Street.


Lucy E. Merrihew


4-5 22 East Grove Street.


Etta W. Toothaker


2-3 141 Centre Street. North Street.


Annabel Landgrebe, Sub Primary


SUBURBAN SCHOOLS.


Pleasant Street-Myra A. Andrews, 77 So. Main Street.


Plymouth Street-Elsie M. Landgrebe, North Street.


Purchade-Alma A. Knowlton, 3 Rock Street.


Thompsonville-Edith M. Eldridge, Thompson Street. Soule-Mary C. Azevedo, Rock


Waterville-Maude DeMaranville, Lakeville. Green-Mabel E. Stearns, Plymouth Street.


Fall Brook-Alta E. Battles, 5 Myrtle Street. Rock -Mary R. Burke, Rock.


Thomastown-C. Harold Striley, Purchase Street.


South Middleboro-Irene J. Hatch, 36 North Street.


Highland-Jessie M. Seaver, Wareham.


Wappanucket-Annie Golden, Walnut Street.


SUPERVISORS.


Manual Arts-Mary L. Cook, 11 Pierce Street. Music-Harrison O. Wetherell, 33 Pearl Street.


Penmanship-William A. Harthorne, 41 School Street.


SCHOOL SESSIONS.


High School from 8.15 to 1.15 p. m.


Central elementary from 9 a. m. to 12 m., and from 1.30 p. m. to 3.30 p. m.


Half-time plan from 9 a. m. to 11.45 p. m., and from 1.15 p. m. to 4 p. m.


Suburban schools from 9 a. m. to 12 m., and from 1 p. m. to 3.30 p. m.


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FIRE SIGNALS.


Two strokes of gong-pupils will march out without hats and coats.


Two strokes, followed by one-pupils will march out with hats and coats. Fire drills shall be given at least once a week.


MIDDLEBOROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS.


SCHOOL STORM SIGNALS REVISED FEBRUARY 1911.


FOR ALL SCHOOLS.


The signal, 2-1-2, will be given four times upon the fire alarm bell and whistles at 7.45 a. m. for suspension of the session of the High School and the morning session of the Elementary schools, and at 12.30 p. m. for suspension of afternoon sessions.


FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.


The same signal at 8.15 a. m. closes all schools below the High School, and at 8.30 a. m., the schools in the Union Street, Forest Street buildings and the schools on the first floor of the West Side building for the forenoon session. The same signal at 12.45 p. m. closes the schools closed by the 8.30 a. m. signal for the afternoon session.


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INDEX TO SCHOOL REPORTS


181


169


181


184


154


157


177


160


163


125


128


143


183


170


164


170


173


183 182


Appointments and transfers Attendance Officers, Report of .


Changes in Teachers


Fire and Storm Signals


High School, Report of Principal of


Manual Training, Report of Supervisor of


Music, Report of Supervisor of


Penmanship, Report of the Supervisor of


School Committee, Report of


Report of the Secretary


Superintendent of Schools, Report of


Supervisors


Schools, cost of


School Physician, Report of


School Statistics


School Enrollment


School Sessions


Teachers, List of


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ARTICLES IN THE WARRANT FOR THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.


To be held in the Town Hall, Monday, March 2, 1914.


Article 1. To choose all necessary town officers, the fol- lowing officers to be voted for on one ballot, viz .: One moder- ator for one year, one treasurer, one collector of taxes, eight constables, three fish wardens, one auditor, three fence viewers, one tree warden, all for one year each, one selectman, one assessor, one overseer of the poor, three trustees of the Public Library, two members of the School Board, one member of the Board of Health, and one member of the Municipal Light Board, all for three years, and one trustee of the Public Library for two years.


The polls for the election of these officers will be open at half past eleven o'clock A. M. and will not be closed before half past three o'clock P. M.


Article 2. To vote by ballot "Yes" or "No" in answer to the question "Shall license be granted for the sale of intox- icating liquors in this town?"


Article 3. To raise such sums of money, by tax or other- wise, as may be necessary to defray the expenses of the town, for the current year, appropriate the same, and to act any- thing in relation to the assessment and collection of taxes for the year.


Article 4. To authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, or a majority thereof, to borrow during the municipal year, beginning Jan. 1st, 1914 in anti- cipation of revenue of said year such sums of money as may be necessary for the current expenses of the town, but not exceeding the total tax levy for said year, giving the notes of the town therefor, payable within one year from the dates thereof. All debts incurred under authority of this vote shall be paid from the revenue of the present municipal year.


Article 5. To hear the report of any committees or officers of the town, to appoint any committees, and act thereon.


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Article 6. To allow accounts against the town and act thereon.


Article 7. To see if the town will vote that the yards of persons chosen Field Drivers shall be town pounds as long as they remain in office, provided they shall be chosen pound keepers.


Article 8. To dispose of the money received for dog li- censes, and other licenses, the present year, and act thereon.


Article 9. To see if the town will pay the expenses of one or more night officers in the village, and act thereon.


Article 10. To see if the town will appropriate any money to be expended by Post 8 G. A. R. on Memorial Day, and act thereon.


Article 11. To see what action the town will take in re- lation to sprinkling the streets, and act thereon.


Article 12. To see what action the town will take in re- lation to concrete or other sidewalks, appropriate any sum of money for the same, and act thereon.


Article 13. To appoint a committee on appropriations and act thereon.


Article 14. To see if the town will vote to authorize the selectmen to institute, defend, or compromise suits for or against the town during the ensuing year, and act thereon.


Article 15. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to be expended for the employment of a District Nurse.


Article 16. To see if the town will vote to grant the Mid- dleborough Fire District the use of the Town Hall, free of charge, for the purpose of holding their Fire District meetings.


Article 17. To see if the town will accept an extension of School Street as laid out by the Selectmen.


Article 18. To see if the town will authorize the Municipal Light Board to extend its lines and install lights on parts of Plymouth and Summer Sts. as petitioned for, to appropriate money for the same, and act anything thereon.


Article 19. To see if the town will petition the Director of the Bureau of Statistics for an audit of its accounts in ac- cordance with the provisions of Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1910 and amendments thereof.


Article 20. To see if the town will appropriate money for Band Concerts the coming season, and act anything thereon.


Article 21. To see what action the town will take in relation to disposing of its rights to take alewives for one year, or a term of years, and act thereon.


Article 22. To see if the town will vote to make further


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repairs on the High School building, appropriate money for the same, and act anything thereon.


Article 23. To see if the town will vote to provide addi- tional school rooms or other school accommodations, appro- priate any sums of money for that purpose, and act anything thereon.


Article 24. To see if the town will vote to discontinue Centre Ave. from Cambridge St. to the Railroad.


Article 25. To see if the town will vote to assume the expense of cleaning cesspoolsand vaults within the limits of the Fire District, appropriate money therefore and act anything thereon.


Article 26. To see what action the Town will take in re- lation to installing additional street lights recommended by the Selectmen, appropriate money therefor, and act anything thereon.


Article 27. To see what action the town will take in re- lation to extending the gas mains, appropriate money there- for, and act anything thereon.


Article 28. To see if the town will vote to instruct their Selectmen to institute proceedings in a court of proper juris- diction so as to have the construction of the will of the late Thomas S. Peirce finally determined, appropriate money therefor, and act anything thereon.


Article 29. To see if the town will vote to make more ade- quate provision for its lockup, appropriate money for the same, and act anything thereon.


Article 30. To see if the town will appropriate a certain sum of money for a contingent fund under authority of Chapter 347, Acts of 1912.


Article 31. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to be used with appropriations from the State and towns of Carver and Lakeville for building a watch tower in Middleboro for the use of the State Forestry Dept. for the discovery and location of forest fires.


Article 32. To see if the town will vote to defray the ex- penses of the private work of the moth department, appro- priate money therefor, and act anything thereon.


Article 33. To see if the town will vote to pay the expense of the Fire Department in answering calls outside the Fire District, appropriate money therefor, and act anything thereon.


INDEX


5


103


28


36


82


89


87


18


23


34


32


32


33


20


54


53


105


107


50


123


10 17


17


17


24


57


78


69


81


3


91


100


26


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Assessors, Report of


Auditor's Report


Board of Health, Report of


Chief of Police, Report of Cemetery Trust Funds


Collector of Taxes, Report of


Election Officers


Fish Wardens, Report of Forest Warden, Report of


Inspector of Milk


Inspectors of Slaughtering


Inspector of Animals.


Jurors, List of


Middleboro Public Library


Report of Treasurer


Municipal Lighting and Power Plant


Report of Superintendent Overseers of the Poor, Report of


Selectmen, Report of School Reports


Soldiers' Relief


State Aid


Military Aid


Superintendent of Streets Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of


Town Clerk, Report of


Births


Deaths


Marriages


Summary


Town Officers


Trustees under will of Thomas S. Peirce, Report of Town Treasurer, Report of


Tree Warden


Town Warrant


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