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Report of Town Clerk.
MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN PLYMOUTH IN 1875. Jan'y 12. Laban B. Briggs and Ella S. Clark, both of Ply- mouth.
Jan'y 19. Samuel Nelson and Lydia B. Briggs, both of Ply- mouth.
Jan'y 27. Henry B. Alden and Ella J. Chapman, both of Ply- mouth.
Feb'y 14. Isaac N. Bourne, of East Bridgewater, and Mar- tha J. Holmes.
Feb'y 16. William H, Kelly. of New Bedford, and Sarah M. Hall, of Plymouth.
Feh'y 25. Franklin B. Cobb, Jr., of Plymouth, and Mary E. Chamberlin, of Worcester.
Mar. 18. Albert L. Doten and Roxanna C. Thrasher, both of Plymouth.
Apr. 2. Thomas H. Silvie and Josephine Smith both of Plymouth.
Apr. 7. Henry A. Thomas and Ada F. Peterson, both of Plymouth.
Apr. 8. Perez S. Wade and Betsey Hathaway, both of Ply- mouth.
Apr. 10. Charles H. Briggs and Susie P. King, both of Ply- mouth.
Apr. 23. Francis L. Whitten, of Plymouth, and Augusta P. Cady, of Lowell.
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Apr. 25. Henry H. Sampson and Camilla J. Warren, both of Plymouth.
Apr. 29. Herbert Morissey and Alma F. Morton, both of Plymouth.
May 4. Winslow W. Avery, of Plymouth, and Mary A. Landers, of Plainfield, Vt.
May 27. Milton H. Reamy, of Boston, and Harriet Manter, of Plymouth.
May 27. William B. Leland and Emma R. Manter, both of Plymouth.
May 31. Henry C. Rogers and Marcia S. Bates, both of Ply- mouth.
June 1. David Workmister and Mary Woolf, both of Ply- mouth.
June 2. Walter L. Gilbert and Josephene I. Peckham, both of Plymouth.
June 5. Francis D. Cushman, of Kingston, and Mary A. Daniels, of Plymouth.
June 15. Edward Winsor, of Duxbury, and Emma G. Noyes, of Plymouth.
June 15. Adoniram J. Raymond and Roxina Sears, both of Plymouth.
June 17. Elisha T. Nelson and Anna H. Holmes, both of Ply- mouth.
June 17. Charles W. Cooke and Phebe A. Bumpus, both of Plymouth.
June 20. Frank A. Norwood and Delia M. Greer, both of Ply- mouth.
July 11. George A. Manter and Ada H. Taylor, both of Ply- mouth.
July 21. Louis K. Bradford and Myra W. Holmes, both of Plymouth.
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July 25. Jesse E. Sampson and Deborah B. Manter, both of Plymouth.
July 31. George W. Wood and Lizzie D. Holmes, both of Plymouth.
Aug. 10. Curtis Holmes and Sue Torry Bagnell, both of Ply- mouth.
Aug. 18. George Gibbs, of Kentucky, and Elizabeth Hodge, of Plymouth.
Aug. 18. Henry W. Finney and May Lemoine Harlow, both of Plymouth.
Aug. 31. Charles H. Bates and Clara P. King, both of Ply- mouth.
Sept. 12. Hiram B. Lucas, of Duxbury, and Mary E. Butler, of Plymouth.
Sept. 14. Isaac H. Eddy, of Boston, and Rebecca H. Hatha- way, of Plymouth.
Sept. 21. Edward W. Bradford, of Plymouth, and Jeanette M. Ellis, of Maine.
Sept. 21. John B. Boutelle, of South Carolina, and Marianna N. Faulkner, of Plymouth.
Sept. 29. J. Everett Luscomb and Mary H. Diman, both of Plymouth.
Sept. 30. Charles F. Ryder and Ella C. Bradford, both of 1 Plymouth.
Oct. 4. George W. Mayall, of Melrose, and Lydia E. Bart- lett, of Plymouth.
Oct. 5. Harry Kramer and Eliza B. Kay, both of Plymouth. Oct. 28. Edward Frank Dean, of Boston, and Mercie Lovell Weston, of Plymouth.
Nov. 4. Horace M. Saunders and Catherine S. Lewis, both of Plymouth.
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Nov. 11. Jose Henandez and Isadora Delano, both of Kings- ton.
Nov. 18. Richard Holmes and Laura E. Barnes, both of Plymouth.
Nov. 21 George B. P. Atwood, of Middleboro', and Laura F. Griffith, of Plymouth.
Nov. 24. Edward G. Brown, of Kingston, and Abbie L. Brad- ford, of Plymouth.
Nov. 25. Sherman Allen and Serena Finney, both of Plymouth.
Dec. 2. Simeon H. Morrison and Nancy W. Elliot, both of Plymouth.
Dec. 7. Dwight Faulkner and Alice B. Hall, both of Ply- mouth.
Dec. 20. George K. Field, of Waltham, and Cornelia W. Bradford, of Plymouth.
Dec. 20. George R. Knights and Flora Adams, both of Plymouth.
Dec. 23. Charles A. Bush and Katie Stephens, both of Ply mouth.
Dec. 24. Nathaniel C. Ellis, of Lynn, and Linda M. Jordon, of Plymouth.
Dec. 25. Cyrus M. Scott, of Lynn, and Deborah A. Ryder, of Plymouth.
Dec. 25. John T. Foster, of Hyde Park, and Lucinda E. Ray- mond, of Plymouth.
Dec. 25. Charles F. W. Gurney, of Plymouth, and Sarah L. Coville, of Wareham.
Dec. 29. James H. Farris and Emma N. Harlow, both of Plymouth.
Number of marriages registered, 59.
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DEATHS REGISTERED IN PLYMOUTH IN 1875.
DATE.
NAMES.
Yrs.
Mos.
Dys.
Jan'y
2,
Henry Matta,
70
5
28
Paralysis,
George and Sarah.
8,
Sarah Plimpton,
81
5
20
Old Age,
12,
Nancy N. Freeman,
31
1
6
Consumption,
Benjamin and Judith.
15,
Maria S. Diman,
38
8
23
15,
Mary Gilbert,
67
11
20
Heart Disease,
Wife of Freeman W.
22.
John Hatton,
73
5
17
Diabetes,
Johnı Hatton.
25,
James W. Ellis,
71
10
12
Pleurisy,
27,
Feb'y
5,
Joseph Braunacker,
66
7
25
Dropsy,
5,
Ralph G. Chapman,
5
4
Scrofula,
James H. and Mary B.
13,
Mary A Hayward,
66
11
29
Heart Disease,
Wife of Charles O.
16,
Melissa A. Baker,
49
3
9
Consumption,
16,
Sally Fleming,
74
7
Registered in Wareham,
16,
Nathaniel Russell,
73
1
29
Injury from Fall,
19,
Antone Frank,
64
6
24
Jaundice,
23,
Ellen Sherman,
82
3
3
Old Age,
27,
Lillian E. Douglass,
7
3
17 Scarletina,
March 3,
Nellie F. Freeman, Ada D. Holmes,
14
11
14
Pneumonia,
14,
17,
Jeannette E. Morrison, Almira Churchill,
66
7
6
23,
25,
Eunice Churchill,
97
11
Paralysis, Old Age,
Widow of Rufus.
66
17,
Adaline W. Rickard,
49
14
Cancer,
43
10
Lung Fever,
Nathaniel Ellis.
Ruth Sampson,
5
13
Laryngitis,
Joseph and Mary.
! Solomon and Jedidah.
8,
George Rogers,
71
10
Paralysis,
Widow of Alexander.
Widow of Philander.
Wife of David H.
Wife of Truman.
Sarah J. Davie,
Widow of Henry.
Widow of Patrick. Died in Wareham. Nathaniel and Martlıa.
Widow of Samuel. Andrew J. and Priscilla.
Philander and Nancy.
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10 Cholera Infantum.
Andrew T. and Elizabeth.
Wife of John.
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2
17 Pleurodynia,
Daughter of Nathaniel Bartlett.
April
: | Mina
George G. Page,
AGE.
DISEASE.
NAMES OF PARENTS, ETC.
Died at Dedham.
22
April 5, George G. Page,
22
6, Mina O. Darling,
16
5
6
Sidney C. Besse,
33
7
Mary L. Ellis,
56
6
Died Suddenly,
Henry and Mary. Died in Boston.
14,
William Burgess,
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14
Inflammation of Bowels, Intemperance,
John and Margaret.
23,
Edward Dwyer,
28,
Lydia L. Churchill,
35
9
25
Consumption,
30,
George S. Morey,
57
3
17
Wound of the Head,
James and Mary.
5,
Mary Burgess,
76
9
24
General Debility,
5,
Violette Crozier,
57
6
16
Cause Unknown,
Joseph.
6,
Henry Whiting,
81
3
2
Old Age.
Caleb and Mary.
7,
Wm. E. Sturtevant,
25
10
18
Judicial Hanging,
Widow of Ichabod.
10,
Betsey H. Morton,
80
16
Pheumonia,
Hosea and Mary.
67
12,
Sarah W. Bartlett,
88
23
Old Age.
14,
Lucy Adams,
87
3
15
Suddenly,
17,
Amelia C. Holbrook,
40
10
25
Dropsy,
Daniel and Rebecca.
23,
Isaac C. Jackson,
75
5
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Malignant Pustule,
24,
Ellen B. Holmes,
66
10
24
Heart Disease,
Widow of Albert.
25,
Lydia Tribble,
56
3
26,
Georgianna Finney,
5
21
Disease of Brain,
30,
Edward D. Clark,
67
Disease of Bowels,
John and Elinor.
June
10,
George H. Bates,
56
10
Apoplexy,
Laban and Olive
17,
Charles Beal,
43
8
7
Urinary Calcalus,
Wife of Hiram.
19,
Mary E. Lanman,
48
3
26
Malignant Disease,
David and Marion Died in Kingston.
21,
Harriet E. Brown,
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3
Bright's Disease,
22,
James E. Leonard,
27
10
16
Chronic Ulceration,
Wife of James.
23, July
2, Deboralı A. Sampson,
30
5
10 Consumption,
4, Samuel Bradford,
86
9
7 Old Age,
11,
Catherine Wolfe,
55
6
Heart Disease,
18,
William J. Brown,
26
6
18
Typhoid Fever,
James H. and Abagail. Died in N. York. Wm. P. and Almira. Died in Worcester. John and Mary.
Edward and Hannah. Died in Wareham. Wife of Timothy.
8, 12, Richard Warren,
83
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2
Old Age,
William and Lucy. Jas. H. and Huldah. Died in Brockton.
22,
Gracie L. Stillman,
37
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Apoplexy,
Widow of Joseph.
William, Jr. and Susan.
May 3,
Widow of William.
Wife of William.
11.
Hosea Bartlett,
73
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Paralysis,
Widow of James.
Widow of George.
Wife of E. Holbrook. D'd in N. Andover.
Daughter of Amasa Holmes.
Diathesis,
George and Abby W.
William and Deborah. Died in N. York.
William M. and Susan.
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Consumption,
Betsey W. Stillman,
Wife of Nelson S.
Samuel.
Johnston and Mary B.
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Diabetes, Consumption, Cholera Infantum,
6, Mary J. Reagin,
Josiah D. Baxter,
DEATHS - Continued.
DATE.
NAMES.
Yrs. | Mos.] Dys.
July
19,
Barnabas Hazzard,
40
1
1
24,
Robert S. Mason,
1
15
25,
Elizabeth Lawler,
12
2
14
26,
Richard B. Mason,
7
17
28,
Lydia Ripley,
66
1
3
Dysentery,
Jas. and Mehitable. Died in Weymouth.
30,
Lucy M. Thomas,
4
8
Scarlet Fever,
30,
Betsey Harlow,
72
2
7
Dysentery,
August 1,
Jane Stephens,
69
10
20
5,
Mary A. Vinal,
17
11
5
Consumption,
Joseph and Martha.
18,
Joseph Holmes, 2d,
60
11
24
Anæmia,
Wife of Nathan.
23,
Lucinda Holmes,
51
8
1
Heart Disease,
24,
James Swinnerton,
65
11
Phthisis,
26,
Eliza Ann Brown, Charles T. Pratt,
8
Fits,
Sept.
1,
William F. Heath,
8
16
Cholera Infantum,
1,
Isaac H. Hayden,
1
8
Cholera Infantum,
2,
Melvin E. Farrington,
2
28
Gastritis,
4,
Nathan Dunham,
70
3
4
Softening of Brain, Consumption,
Wife of Jerome.
31.
2
12
66
2
1
Consumption,
Edward and Mary.
10,
21
7
20
Consumption,
1
4
Marasmus,
18,
19, Eva S. Fostmeyer,
11
29
Scarlet Fever,
21,
John F. Rickard,
11
1
Marasmus,
22, Branch Holmes,
75
8
22
Consumption,
24, William W. Baker,
60
4
3 Paralysis,
24,
Charles Long,
28,
Polly T. Deacon,
81
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Dysentery,
NAMES OF PARENTS, ETC.
Barney and Margaret. Died in Hingham. Albert and Lydia F. Died in Brookline. Patrick and Bridget.
Albert and Lydia F. Died in Brookline.
Wife of Luther. Died in Boston.
Wife of Lewis.
Widow of Zacheus.
Daughter of George Perkins.
Samuel and Sarah.
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29
Consumption,
Obed and Ezmeralda. Wife of Stephen P. William and Sarah.
Edward B. and Anna.
David F. and Lizzie.
Ichabod and Betsey.
4
11
Marasmus,
John and Catherine. William and Jane. Abbie D. Lucas.
Victor H. and Paulene.
Lemuel and Georgianna.
Seth and Jerusha.
Edward D. and Sarah.
Unknown,
Charles and Catherine. Widow of James.
Henry Torrence. .John C. P'arka,
Premature Birth,
Nat, int)
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AGE.
DISEASE
Diarrhœa, Rheumatic,
Paralysis,
27,
7, Mary H. Briggs, 8, John Morrison, Mary E Cumiskay, Emma Stephens, James Lucas,
11,
7
7 27
Oct.
9, Henry Torrence, John C. Parks,
54
7
27 Dropsy, 1 Spine Bifida,
11, Annie Burghelzer,
3
15, Benjamin Goddard,
62
7
12 Congestion of Brain,
11 Consumption,
17, Lucy Crowley, 23, Betsey Holmes,
96
1
16 Old Age, Diphtheria, Paralysis,
Abbott and Jeannette. [boro'.
24, Harry W. Shiverick,
2
11
24
25, 30, 5, 8,
Betsey Lucas, Mary E. Jenkins,
80
7
General Debility,
Nov.
William Holsgrove,
17
1
Typhoid Fever,
12, Rosilla F. Douglass,
4
1
8 9
Diphtheria,
18, Francis C. Bates,
19
21,
Elmer G. Besse,
4
6
Dec. 5, George Thrasher,
80
1
6, Ella R. Barnes,
24
4
7
Puerperal Convulsions,
11,
Isaac L. Burgess, Elizabeth Helm,
2
9
22
Disease of Brain,
28,
80
2
6
Old Age.
Nathan and Rosetta. James and Lucretia. Benedict and Annie. Daniel and Beulah. Died in Lowell. Joseph and Ida. Abner and Anna Bartlett.
Joseph and Amelia. Died in Middle-
John Cleale,
76
5
Asa and Deborah Lucas.
Jane Jenkins. Thomas and Jane. Ansel and Annie. Francis and Nancy T. Benjamin and Lucy.
Phthisis, Typhoid Fever, Typhoid Fever.
George and Rachel.
Wife of Joseph.
Isaac S. and Ruth.
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10,
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SUMMARY.
MARRIAGES.
Whole number of Marriages registered in 1875 .. 59
BIRTHS.
Whole number of Births registered in 1875. 188
Males . 96
Females 92
188
DEATHS.
Whole number of Deaths registered in 1875 .. 119
Males 54
Females 65
119
Under 5 years 37
From 5 to 10 years
2
" 10 to 20 66
6
" 20 to 30 66
6
" 30 to 40 66
8
40 to 50 66
6
50 to 60 9
" 60 to 70 66 17
" 70 to 80 13
13
" 80 to 90
Over 90 years 2
119
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TOWN MEETING.
Copy of Articles in Warrant for Town Meeting, to be held in Davis Hall, on MONDAY, March 20th, 1876 :
1. To choose a Moderator.
2. To choose all necessary Town Officers.
3. To choose a Water Commissioner.
4. To choose a Committee to regulate the fisheries in Aga- wam and Half-way Pond rivers, and to take such other action relative to the same as may be necessary.
5. To hear the report of the several officers and Committees of the Town, and act thereon.
6. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes, and for disbursements under the provisions of the laws relating to State Aid, and to defray the expenses of the Town after January 1, 1877.
7. To revise and accept a list of Jurors prepared by the Selectmen.
8. To see if the Town will authorize the Collector of Taxes to use all means of collecting the Taxes which a Town Treasurer, when appointed a Collector, may use.
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9. To make the necessary appropriations to defray the ex- penses of the Town, and for other purposes, and to raise such sums of money therefor as the Town shall deem expedient.
10. To see if the Town will accept and allow the laying out of a Town way from the Cliff neighborhood by the school house, to the Sandwich road, as laid out by the Selectmen.
11. To see if the Town will accept and allow the widening of Beaver Dam road, as made by the Selectmen.
12. To see if the Town will discontinue the road from the guide board near the foot of the Pine Hills to Taylor's Farm.
13. To see what action the Town will take to furnish inhab- itants of high localities with a more abundant supply of water, and to make any appropriation of money which their action may require.
14. To see what action the Town will take in reference to a claim of Hosea C. Bartlett, for injury to his horse on the highway.
15. To see if the Town will appropriate money to build a suitable house or houses for the Steam Fire Engines.
SCHOOL REPORT.
1875-6.
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SCHOOL REPORT.
The School Committee rely mainly upon the Superin- tendent to report such matters, and to make such sug- gestions relating to the schools, as are important and profitable for the consideration of the Town.
Public schools cannot receive too great care and at- tention. The Town has too large sums of money invest- ed in them ; every parent, who has children there, too sacred interests ; and society and the State too much at stake ; to afford to neglect them.
In this Centennial year, looking back upon the past of our country, with pardonable pride and profound grat- tude ; and looking forward to the future, with cheerful hope and well founded expectation, we should fully real- ize and act upon the truth, that the welfare and stability of our government must chiefly depend upon the nurture and culture of the children : in honesty, good morals and sound learning :- and for this culture, we must look mainly to our common schools.
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In the School Department of town affairs, there should be exercised a wise liberality in the expenditure of money. The schools should be kept up, at least, to their present standard of excellence.
The past year, we think the schools have been rea- sonably successful. Teachers have labored dilligently and faithfully, and with good results. Not all with equal success, but according to the talents given them. Those who have taken an interest in, and have observed the schools, must have noticed the zeal and ambition ex- cited in teachers and scholars as the annual examination approached, lest the scholars should fail of promotion from one grade to another, or lest their standing in their classes should be low. This stimulus is not too exciting, but healthful, and promotes dilligence and application, both in teachers and pupils.
The presence of parents and those interested in the scholars, at examinations and exhibitions, which has been noticeable the past year, has been an encouragement to teachers and pupils, as indicating that their efforts were appreciated.
Looking back half a century, and remembering our public schools as they then were, and comparing them with the schools of the present day,-in the text books in use, the method of instruction, and the acquirements of the scholars,-we can appreciate the vast improvement of the present schools over the past. A man who was educated in our common schools fifty years ago, feels profoundly,
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and appreciates fully, the superior advantages his chil- dren are receiving from them now. Fifty years hence, we have reason to believe, a similar contrast may be made with the present time. . That an equal amount of knowledge, in any given branch of learning, will be ob- tained in the school room in one half the time now spent, by better methods of instruction, we have no reason to doubt.
Our Normal schools are doing important work, in teaching scholars the art of teaching, by the best methods now in use. But a comparatively small number of teachers obtain the benefit of such instruction. A large proportion of school teachers are compelled to learn to teach by experience, and experiment, to teach themselves how to teach, and it is surprising that they succeed so well. The more experience they acquire, the more valuable are their services. Some persons have the talent to teach, and it is observ- able at once. Others have not that talent given them, and they never excel.
The best service your Committee can render the Town is to select with care, and good judgment, competent teachers for the schools. To secure the best to be had for the wages we can afford to pay.
We have no reason to criticize, and do not intend to criticize our present teachers. They honorably earn, by the most trying kind of labor,-labor that furrows the face, and blanches the cheek,-every dollar they
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receive ; and earn also the gratitude of, and place under great obligation to them, every parent who intrusts the care and culture of his children to their keeping.
Unexpected repairs, the enlargement of the School House at Cold Spring, and establishing a school at the Gurnet, have increased expenditures beyond what was anticipated. It will be seen however, by the account rendered, that of the amount available for school pur- poses of $17,188.90, has been expended $17,040.48, leaving a balance to the credit of schools the present year of $148.42, which reduces the amount overdrawn the preceeding year to the sum of $407.54.
After due consideration, we thought it judicious to establish for the Summer months, a school at the Gur- net. We became aware that the matter would be pre sented to the Grand Jury, should we refuse, which we learn has recently been done, because the school was not continued through the Autumn and Winter. The Grand Jury, however, found no bill of indictment against the Town.
After the examination of the schools, at the end of the school year, we found so many scholars had been sent forward from the Grammar schools to the High school, that they could not be seated in the school room. There were some twenty-five more scholars than seats. We could devise no better plan than to take into the school room, a recitation room, which had been taken from it, some years since, and construct an addi-
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tion to the building in the rear, for a recitation room. We were obliged to take action at once, as scholars were waiting for seats. This addition has been made, in anticipation of the appropriation for the present year.
Your Committee ask an appropriation of thirteen hundred dollars for this addition and some necessary repairs upon the building. The High School building was found to be sound in its timbers and clapboards, and requiring only to be kept painted, to last many years. An appropriation of two hundred dollars will be necessary to properly paint this building.
The building contains four schools, numbering in all about two hundred and ninety scholars. The water closets are, and have been, in bad condition. We have obtained an estimate of the cost of putting in new water closets, and connecting them with South Pond water, and find it will cost about five hundred dollars.
We recommend that this be done, if the Town can afford the outlay, the present year. If it cannot be afforded, your Committee will cause repairs to be made that will improve their present condition with but trifling expense.
We recommend that the Town raise the same sum for schools that was raised the last year, to wit : fifteen thousand five hundred dollars, and that fifteen hundred dollars be raised for special repairs, for the purposes already stated.
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1875.
Amount available for school purposes :
Appropriation . $15,500 00
School fund from State .. 371 22
Dog fund from County 417 81
Books sold 899 37
Miscellaneous
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$17,188 90
EXPENDITURES.
Teachers and Superintendent. $13,080 82
Repairs and supplies. .
784 46
Fuel.
823 67
Books purchased. 1,411 14
Care school buildings 370 86
Enlargement school house at Cold Spring 180 39
School building at Gurnet. .
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Horse hire.
164 25
Printing and advertising
127 25
Incidentals. .
52 64
$17,040 48
Balance to credit Schools, 1875, $148.42
148 42
$17,188 90
Amount overdrawn Schools, 1874. $555 96
WM. H. WHITMAN,
GEO. A. TEWKSBURY,
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CHAS. G. DAVIS. LEMUEL BRADFORD, 2d,
CHAS. B. STODDARD,
BENJ. A. HATHAWAY,
School Committee of Plymouth.
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REPORT.
To the School Committee of the Town of Plymouth :
GENTLEMEN : In accordance with your requirements, I have the honor to submit for your consideration the following report for the school year, 1875-6 :
Our annual examinations, as at present conducted, always seem to be a fit conclusion to the school work of the year. On this occasion, every scholar, whose turn it is to be promoted, is profoundly moved, of course, when he is placed face to face with the examina- tion questions which are to decide whether he is to advance with his companions or remain another year where he now is, with strangers who have come up from below. He earnestly endeavors to recall and under- stand all that he has passed over or through since his last examination, at least ; and thus he is enabled to make a fairer estimate of his acquirements than he could
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make at any other part of the year. This sense of re- sponsibility reaches also the teacher, whose reputation is very deeply concerned in the success of the scholars sent up for examination ; for, if any of these fail, they are returned to the school from which they came for an- other year and another trial. To parents this is a season of unusual interest, who, of course, are intensely con - cerned in the success of their children, and are thus in- duced to inquire into the merits and defects of the pub- lic schools, and, by the sharpness of their criticism, help to show the way in which the schools are to be im- proved.
CHANGES. The High School seems destined to lose one of its teachers, at least, every year. The detriment received from this frequent change is very great ; indeed, it is so great that, if increase of compensation is what the case demands, the remedy ought to be applied imme- diately. It is certain that ladies, properly qualified to perform the services requied in our High School, are much better paid in other institutions, so that if an ac- complished teacher accepts a situation with us, it is proba- ble she seeks only a temporary arrangement, and, if she is enterprising and has friends, will receive a better offer within a year. The last change we had to regret was the loss of Miss SARAH B. MORTON ; but we were fortu- nate enough to secure the services of an experienced teacher in Miss MARY C. LAMB.
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Owing to ill health, we have lost the services of Miss MARTHA W. BARTLETT, for the last two years teacher of the North Grammar School, and for over fifteen years, occupied in teaching various schools in this Town. She has always been a faithful and successful worker, and her ill health is due, in a great measure, to excessive labor. The place left vacant by Miss Bartlett has been filled by Miss HELEN F. WARD, a teacher who first distinguished herself in this Town by her very successful management of the Ellisville School, and since, by the skill with which she very quietly and very efficiently controls the North Grammar School.
The school at South Pond has, for several years, been under the successful management and instruction of Miss LOTTIE T. BURGESS. Her life was everywhere very beautiful, but it was especially gentle and beneficent in the school room. About a year ago her health began to fail, although her friends could not induce her to give up her school until it was too late. Quite recently, she passed away, mourned by all who inti- mately knew her.
At the end of the Summer term, after an acceptable service of several years, Miss CLARA P. KING resigned her situation in the East Chiltonville School, and was succeeded by Miss SUSIE F. CHURCHILL.
The school at Cedarville has been a source of con- siderable anxiety. As it is not a very attractive place
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for strangers, few teachers have been willing to remain there long enough to do much good, and, of course, this continual change has helped to keep the school in a very low condition as to scholarship and discipline. The teachers, too, who have had charge of the school have, for the most part, been young ladies of little experience and insight, whose work could not be of the highest value. In order to bring the school up to an equality with the other schools of the Town, it was determined to try what an experienced male teacher could do in bringing about the desired improvement. Accord-
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