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duce strong, self-reliant students with power to think and to do."
This criticism of the work of the public schools is a fair one; the fault is real, and the remedy should be evident. The fault is not with. the system, however, but with its method of application. All means and conditions which, when rightly used, make the work of the pupil better and more valuable, and render his school life pleasanter and happier, should be welcomed. Tasks suited to the needs and capacities of the pupil should be assigned, and then he should be left to wrestle, if need be, by himself. It is easier for the teacher to work with the pupil, it is better for the pupil that he work by himself. The help he most needs, and the highest and best help the teacher can supply him is en- couragement, inspiration and a high ideal.
The closing exercises of the grammar schools were held at the High School on Friday afternoon, June 30, 1899.
CLASS OF 1899. Cornish School.
Rubie Ellen Besse. Thomas Cassidy.
Walter Franklin Burgess.
Grace Bartlett Ellis.
Cecil Norman Victor Greenhalge.
Grace Clifton King.
Eunice B. Paulding.
Edward F. King.
Adolph Peterson.
Clara Bartlett Litchfield,
Belva Pratt.
James Fiske Mabbett.
Nathaniel Elwood Shaw.
Harry Irving Mabbett.
Catherine Lewis Saunders.
Harry E. McArdle.
Jennie Francis Sullivan.
Alice Clifton Paulding.
Charles Logan Sproul.
Burton School.
Christiana Charlotte Anderson.
Angie Avery Churchill. Alice Gertrude Courtney.
Alice Irene Collingwood.
Warren Wiley Cole.
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Gordon Clark Douglass.
Grace Emery Heath.
Nellie Florence Lafayette.
James Edwin Lockwood.
Antonio Melo.
Annie Lois Morrison.
Emma Carolina Schreiber.
Warren Francis Sears.
Bertha May Stephan.
Mary Anne Smith.
Emma Grace Voght.
Leon Russell Wasson.
Mount Pleasant School.
Ruth Evelyn Kingan. Asa Hill Burgess.
Irvin Bradford Larkin.
Lena Mary Costa.
Bessie Josephine Mason.
Chester Raymond Edes.
Harold Whiting Paty.
Grace Ethel Harris.
Martha Frances Sampson.
Knowlton Briggs Holmes.
Alice Cleveland Simmons. Mary Ann Kennedy.
Chiltonville School.
Bessie Louise Alletı. Rose Whiting Howland.
Arthur Miller Bennett. Josephine Frost Langford.
Laurence Whitfield Churchill. Grace Irving Manter.
Bernice Frances Griffin.
UNGRADED SCHOOLS.
There are now four ungraded schools, the fifth, that at South Pond, having been consolidated, during the year, with the school at Russell Mills. Last year sixty-four pupils were enrolled in these schools; they now have an attendance of forty-three, the largest of them having twenty, and the smallest five pupils. The expense per pupil for teachers' salaries in the ungraded schools for the past year was$28.40; the expense per pupil for the same purpose in the graded schools was $12.30.
The ungraded schools have as long a school year as the other schools of the town; the same kinds of books and supplies are furnished them, and the same methods of work, in so far as they are applicable, are pursued in them. It is the purpose of the school department to furnish equal
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school privileges to all pupils, so far as circumstances per- mit that to be done. The advantages of these schools would be greater if they were consolidated into one or two schools. Where we have tried this plan in other schools it has worked well. Sometimes, however, it develops diffi- culties too great to be overcome. But where it is feasible, it ought to be continued. The school policy here has been to bring the school to the pupils, and it has resulted in a large number of small school buildings, expensive to support out of all proportion to the advantages they offer. Effi- ciency and economy suggest the policy of bringing the pupils to the schools. It increases to a reasonable size the smaller schools, and makes better classification possible. The attendance is generally better, the interest greater, better teaching service is secured, and at less expense.
THE HIGH SCHOOL.
The whole number of pupils enrolled at the High School during the past year was 173, and its average membership I20; at present its membership is 131. The current expense of the school for the past year was :
Salaries, $5,150.00 350.00 600.00
Janitor, Fuel and light,
$6,100.00
The expense for fuel and light is approximate, but doubt- less the sum stated amply covers the actual cost.
There has been no change in the outline of work for the High School the past year, except to make more definite the so-called business course. This has been made a four years' course, and it is hoped to make its requirements as exact- ing and its results in practical training as satisfactory as those of any other course. There have been some requests for a short business course, and that at its completion a diploma be given. Some schools have arranged such a
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course; but many of them are now abandoning it for a longer one, and others would do so if the short course were not so strongly intrenched. We have not considered it best to offer a short course in any special line of work, be- cause it tends to induce a false impression of what a high school training should be, and because it does not seem to be within the province of a public high school as small as ours to try to do its work in that way.
The general purpose of the high school is very clearly de- fined by law. It is that its instruction shall be given (1) for the general purpose of training and culture, and (2) for the special purpose of preparing pupils for normal schools, technical schools and colleges. For carrying out this special purpose, courses of study at least four years long are required, and no shorter time suffices for satisfying the general purpose of the law. It does not seem, therefore, that the spirit of these requirements of the law is met, or that the best interests of the community are served by offering a short cut to pupils seeking to accomplish a purpose wholly utilitarian, at the least expense of time and effort. The work which the high school should do is not accomplished in that way. Time is an element in the training which the high school should give-an element which cannot be eliminated. The problem of today is not so much how we can lessen the time commonly allotted to school life as how we can make the work done in that time most effective in obtaining that broad training for good citizenship which the high school is established to secure.
It is one of the functions of the high school to equip pupils for the business of life, and its duty to offer courses suited to that end,-courses which are at once practical, beneficial and disciplinary. We believe that a commercial course may be made one that will furnish as good an equip- ment for the business of life as any other course, if it is in harmony with the intellectual aptitude of the pupil electing
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it, and if it be made sufficiently broad, sound, exacting and continuous; but that it, like any other course, will fail to serve the best interest of the pupil and to fulfill the legal re- quirements of the high school if it be only utilitarian, nar- row, mechanical and soon concluded. We are trying, there- fore, to offer a commercial course which shall meet the re- quirements of a four years' course for training and culture, and at the same time supply that equipment for business which is now being sought by so many pupils.
There is a small increase this year in the number in at- tendance at the High school. About one-fourth of the whole number are taking the commercial work, and nearly as many others are preparing to enter higher schools. About one-third of last year's graduating class has returned this year to do special work. An increasing number of gradu- ates apply each year for this privilege. They enter one or more of the existing classes, thus entailing no more work upon the school. Their purpose is usually very definite, and they study for study's sake; their earnest work and helpful spirit are a stimulus for good to the whole school.
Our High School is not perfect; it is not as good as it can be made under its present conditions, perhaps. Never- theless, most of its work is of an excellent quality. It finds ample justification for all the expense it incurs in the good training it offers to all who attend it, and in the powerful incentive to better work it furnishes to all the other schools of the town.
It is a well recognized fact "that the high school exerts a powerful stimulus for good upon the schools below. It holds up before the young ideals of higher and broader scholarship; it is the gateway to otherwise inaccessible realms beyond; it appeals to the ambition of the young; it appeals to this ambition at a critical time, when it is im- portant that inferior ambitions shall be forestalled; it is a golden strand in that interest which holds the young up to
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scholarly endeavor. It fits in with the thought that noble inspiration comes from above, not from below, that normal children respond better, not when they are pushed from be- neath, but when they are drawn from on high. The longing for higher things thus aroused, children do better work in the lower schools; they are more readily guided; they hold to a definite course more steadily. Indeed, it is as true of the mind as of any ship that sails the seas that it must have mo- mentum to obey its helm. If this ambition to attend the do as others do,-it is, in a larger measure, a spirit to study for study's sake or for the rewards that study brings. It is not surprising, therefore, that school committees, with scarcely an exception, should bear witness to the bracing in- fluence of a good high school upon the grades below, ex- perience thus confirming what theory would lead one to ex- pect."
The graduating exercises of the Class of 1899, Plymouth High School, were held Thursday evening, June 22, 1899.
CLASS OF '99.
Julia Morton Allen.
Lillie Franc Washburn.
Lois Barnes Brewster.
James Henry Downey.
Emma Clifton Brown.
Robert Watson Holmes.
Mabel Florence Douglas.
Jorgen Conrad Petersen.
Grace Bradford Hayden. Edward Murdock Rowse.
Bertha Warren Hinchcliffe. Thomas Everett Sears.
Hannah Washburn Jackson. Arthur Newell Wood.
TEACHERS.
There are at present forty-six teachers in our school ser- vice. During the year covered by this report, there have been fourteen changes in the corps,-most of them of teach- ers in the primary schools. Usually such changes cannot
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be made without loss to the schools in which they occur, and their prevention, therefore, when they come from avoidable causes, would be sound policy.
There is known no other successful way to build up and sustain good schools than to expend enough money to re- tain the good teachers already in the service, and to secure for necessary vacancies as they occur, teachers trained for their work, and with successful experience. "The opportun- ity of going out into neighboring communities and selecting teachers of merit, so long in vogue here, has resulted in a very strong corps of workers," writes a superintendent in his report. What he means is, that when he needs a teacher, he goes into other communities-into their schools, and after searching among the teachers actually at work, secures the best he can find at the salary he is able to offer. Within a few months this superintendent has visited our schools, and because of the good work he saw they were doing, offered three of our teachers positions, two of them paying nearly twice the salary these teachers are receiving here. However indefensible from an ethical standpoint this method of se- curing teachers may be, it is a method which is sanctioned by custom and long usage, and we have to submit to it. In many places school officials spend a large part of their time in visiting their neighbors' schools to secure candidates for present or prospective vacancies. The competition of these officials is keen, and usually those who can offer the highest salaries secure the best teachers. Under ordinary circum- stances, therefore, good teachers cannot be secured, or long retained, at salaries much below their market value. The following may be of service to show what that market value is. It is quoted from a recent report of the schools in Springfield, Mass :
"The facts are as follows: (1) Good positions with good salaries in public schools throughout New England are more numerous than good teachers to fill them. Superin-
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tendents are constantly looking about for superior teachers. (2) Superior teachers are very rarely unemployed except from choice, and they have little occasion to make direct ap- plication for positions; they are sought-often by several places at the same time. (3) Teachers of some ex- perience and who can be considered competent, cannot be se- cured for less than $600 in places where living is as high as it is in cities of the size of ours. (4) Teachers who can fairly be considered superior, or considerably better than the average, cannot be secured for less than from $700 to $800; they can readily command these salaries. In recognition of this fact, the city of Cambridge has just revised its schedule of teachers' salaries, and has fixed upon $700 as the regular maximum salary for all teachers in primary and grammar grades, except those in the highest grammar grades, who are to receive $800 and $900. (5) Instead of good appli- cants being numerous, I find as a rule when a vacancy occurs that I have to search for the teacher to fill it; and when I find one who seems to be well fitted for the position, the salary which we pay is sometimes not sufficient to induce her to ac- cept an appointment. Every year a considerable number of very desirable teachers refuse appointments with us on ac- count of the salaries we pay. This is particularly true of our primary and lower grammar grades where the salary under our present rules cannot exceed $600."
The average monthly salaries paid to women teachers in this state during the past year was $51.43, and the average amount paid in the schools in the Eastern part of the state, especially around Boston, is above this amount. Our salary list is a little more than 22 per cent. below the state average, and for the teachers in the primary schools the average amount paid is 33 per cent. less than the state average.
To secure suitable teachers is, under most favorable condi- tions, a difficult duty; to succeed in doing it under the ex- isting circumstances is an almost hopeless task. But the
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welfare of the schools is vitally dependent upon the success- ful performance of this duty. The teacher is the heart and soul of the school. Upon her depend its life and power. In proportion as we are able to secure teachers who possess those qualities of heart and mind, and that experience and power of influence which fit her for her high duties, in that proportion will the schools be successful, irrespective of their material surroundings. Hence the request, and its reitera- tion year after year, that there be provided sufficient means to place a trained, experienced and successful teacher in every school, for this is the school's supreme necessity.
These facts and comparisons are not pleasant ones to discuss, and they are mentioned again this year with much hesitancy. They are not given in behalf of the teach- ers, for the good teacher can protect her own interests by going where conditions are more to her liking. But they are given in behalf of the children, whose welfare I believe to be a most sacred trust, and for their highest interest I feel that no word, however unpalatable to either writer or read- er, ought to be left unsaid.
SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS.
The proper education of its future citizens is the most serious business in which any people engages. There is no agency so powerful to advance the community's welfare, both moral and material, as that which works for intelligence and character. It is a matter of supreme importance that this business be well done. Both in its direction and in its execution men and women of the best abilities are needed; all resources, financial and moral, should be at its disposal. Never has there been a time when this was so well recog- nized. In no decade before has there been so much wealth, public and private, spent in public education. Many com- munities vie with each other in supplying generously the ma- terial needs for the work of their schools, and in adding to it
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that interest and moral support which is so powerful to make the work successful.
The inference is a fair one, that the people are coming to believe more and more what all history and experience teach, that there is no investment that pays so large and sure a return as wealth invested in education; and that back of this popular interest, and impelling it, is the strong convic- tion that national integrity and prosperity are in a vital way dependent upon the intelligence and character of its citizens.
The history of this community is evidence of the truth of this conviction. Realizing from the first the supreme ne- cessity of an intelligent citizenship, this people have ever made it their chief concern to provide large opportunities for the training of their children. How well the community has succeeded in this work is shown by its long continued pros- perity and influence; by the honor in which it is held at home and abroad; and by the long line of eminent men and women whom it has trained,-men and women of character, who have proved their ability and large usefulness in the state and nation.
Whatever agencies have made these things possible, the schools may claim a share,-perhaps a large share, in the suc- cess achieved; for they have proved, and are today proving, that they contribute in the largest and most important ways to the welfare of the people .- that they have done, and are doing, a priceless service to the community. Those who best know the schools of today believe that they deserve, as they receive, the confidence of those who support them; and that whatever of merit or excellence they possess, is of a kind and of a degree that is worth preserving and increasing. The teachers and school officers are alive to their opportunities and to the importance of their work, and are seeking to make the schools the best they can with the means at hand. They invite examination, criticism and suggestion. They ask continued co-operation and support. In return, they will do
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their part towards making intelligent, loyal citizens, ready and able to serve their town, and to help maintain the high character and proud position it holds among the communities of the state.
In conclusion, I wish to express my appreciation of the conscientious work of the teachers, and to thank both them and the members of the committee for their cordial support and forbearance during the past year.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANCIS J. HEAVENS. Superintendent of Schools.
LIST OF TEACHERS IN THE SCHOOLS, PLYM-
OUTH, MASS.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Agnes W. Lindsey, Principal, Literature and Mathematics.
Grace W. Irwin, Mathematics.
Carrie L. Barker, Classics and French.
Nellie Carpenter, History and English.
Grace B. Dodge, German and Mathematics.
Henrietta Pratt, Science.
Luella B. Cronkrite, Commercial Studies.
NORTH DISTRICT SCHOOLS.
GRADE.
I-2. Katharine J. Cole. I-2. Marie L. Gribbin. I. Lizzie W. Sampson.
2. Gertrude C. Bennett.
3-4. Kate G. Zahn. 3-4. Flora L. Leake. 5-7. Katherine A. O'Brien.
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BURTON SCHOOL.
GRADE.
8. Charles F. Cole.
5. Clara M. Diman. 4-5. Teresa A. Rogan. Alice H. Blackmer.
CORNISH SCHOOL.
GRADE.
9. Arthur R. Gledhill.
7.
Addie L. Bartlett.
6.
Grace D. Chandler.
6.
Lydia E. Holmes.
RUSSELL STREET DISTRICT.
GRADE.
1-2. Bertha M. Briggs.
I-2.
Harriet S. Gooding.
1-2.
Helen A. Dunham.
3-4.
Mary A. Casey.
MOUNT PLEASANT SCHOOL.
GRADE.
8-9. John W. Herrick. 7. Augusta M. Morton. 5-6. Mary J. Ellis. 3-4. Florence A. Remington.
MOUNT PLEASANT DISTRICT.
GRADE.
I. Deborah Howland. 2. Frances E. Weston. I-2. Lizzie E. Mitchell. I-4. Esther C. Manter.
CHILTONVILLE.
GRADE.
6-9. William Keyes. 1-5. Martha W. Whitmore. I-5. Kate W. Sampson. I-5. Mary A. Morton.
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MANOMET.
GRADE.
6-9. I-5.
Adeline S. Keith. Adeline M. Stevens.
Ungraded.
VALLERVILLE. Annie C. Holmes.
Ungraded.
ELLISVILLE. Leella F. Barnes.
Ungraded.
CEDARVILLE. Lucy Moon.
LONG POND.
Ungraded.
Sarah H. Paty.
Drawing.
Clara F. Robinson.
Music.
Minnie M. Jameson.
REPORT OF TRUANT OFFICER.
To School Committee:
I have the honor to submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1899.
Very few cases of actual truancy have occurred. One hundred and forty-two calls have been received from teachers to look up absentees from school, and all cases have been in- vestigated. In most cases the children were detained at home on account of sickness. During the fall term a num- ber of children were absent on cranberry bogs where the pa- rents had moved their families; and, as most of them had moved into other towns, there seemed to be no way of reach- ing them. There have been no prosecutions for non-attend- ance during the year.
Respectfully yours, J. W. HUNTING, Truant Officer.
January, 1900.
SCHOOL RECORD : REPORT FOR PERIOD FROM JANUARY 2, 1899, TO JUNE 30, 1899.
Names of Schools.
Average
Enrollment
for Period.
Average
Average Daily
Attendance.
Per Cent. of
Attendance.
Total Days
Absent.
Number Cases of
Tardiness.
Number Cases of
Dismissal.
hy Teachers. Truancy Reported Number Cases of
of Teacher's
Times Teachers
Number Visits to
Schools made by
Superintendent.
Number Visits
made by Members Committee.
High School
60
North Schools
143
78 147 100
116. 286. 162. 161.
111. 262. 146. 151.
95.7 92.5 90. 94.
652 3753 1852 1336
102 616 230 215
140 95 59
2
9
11
78
7 2
Cornish School Schools
102
94
165.
147.
90.
2429
301
51
3
2
2
35
1
Mt. Pleasant School
103
92
190.
177.
93.
1814
412
361
7
10
1
45
6
Mt. Pleasant District Primary Schools
84
64
144.
132.
92.
487
325
43
1
10
1
74
3
Chiltonville Schools
43
54
90.
80.
88.
1207
422
58
0
10
6
19
4
Manomet Grammar School
17
13
22.
20.
90.
266
219
31
0
4
0
7
2
Manomet Primary School
8
16
16.
14.
86.
188
146
11
0
1
0
6
2
Vallerville-Ungraded
16
7
19.
16.
84.
364
113
37
0
6
0
6
2
Ellisville-Ungraded
6
1
6.
5.
84.
99
54
9
0
0
0
6
2
Cedarville-Ungraded
12
13
18.
16.
88.
255
131
24
0
3
0
5
2
Long Pond -Ungraded
00 1A
Co
4.6
4.4
96.
36
8
9
0
1
0
6
2
South Pond-Ungraded
9
13.
11.7
90.
165
237
6
0
3
0
7
2
Totals
775
769
1411.
1293.
92
14903
3531
652
24
81
44
527
56
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7
63
7
64
8
Burton School
78
Cornish School
91
81
2
9
106
11
21
10
000
10
2
Days
Absence.
were Tardy.
Number Belonging.
Boys. Girls.
District-Primary
TOWN MEETING.
To either of the Constables in the Town of Plymouth, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of Plymouth, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in Davis Opera House, in said Plymouth, on Monday, the fifth day of March, 1900, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and in the Casino, in said Plymouth, on Saturday the tenth day of March, 1900, at eight o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the following articles, to wit :-
ARTICLE I .- To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2 .- To hear the reports of the several boards of officers and committees of the Town and act thereon.
ART. 3 .- To revise and accept a list of Jurors prepared by the Selectmen.
ART. 4 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes, and for disbursement under the pro- visions of the law relating to State Aid and Military Aid, and to defray the expenses of the Town after January first, 1901.
ART. 5 .- To make the necessary appropriations to de- fray the expenses of the Town, and for other purposes, and to raise such sums of money as the Town shall deem ex- pedient.
ART. 6 .- To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to pay the expenses of Decora- tion Day.
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ART. 7 .- To take such action as the Town may see fit in aid of the Public Library.
ART. 8 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to renew any note or notes heretofore authorized, which are now due, or may become due the present year, for such time, and on such terms as they may deem expedient for the interests of the town.
ART. 9 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to bring, prosecute, compromise or defend any claims or suits within the Commonwealth in the name of the Town.
ART. 10 .- To see what appropriation the town will make for the care and improvement of the various public parks, and of Training Green.
ART. II .- To hear the report of the committee appointed to consider the provision of better accommodations for the town officers and the police department, and act thereon, and see if the town will adopt their recommendations.
ART. 12 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to issue bonds or notes of the Town to an amount not exceeding $10,000.00, for the purpose of raising money to be expended for the provision of better accommodations for the Town officers and police department.
ART. 13 .- To see what action the Town will take in re- gard to providing land and buildings for the Fire Depart- ment, and raise and appropriate any money the action of the Town may require.
ART. 14 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to issue bonds or notes of the Town to an amount not exceeding $3,000.00, for the purpose of raising money to be expended for providing land and buildings for the Fire Department.
ART. 15 .- To see if the Town will change the name of Middle street to King street.
ART. 16-To hear the report of the Committee on By- Laws and act thereon, and to see what action the town will
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take in regard to adoption, amendment or revision of By- Laws.
ART. 17 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to employ counsel and incur expenses, as provided by statute, to represent the Town before the Committee of the Legislature on Counties on the petition of C. H. Coulter and others for removal of registry of deeds and probate.
ART. 18 .- To see what action the Town will take relative to a common sewer in Court and intersecting streets north- westerly of Cold Spring, and make an appropriation there- for.
ART. 19 .- Shall eight hours constitute a day's work for all Town laborers, workmen and mechanics ?
ART. 20 .-- To see if the Town will place Burial Hill under the care of the Superintendent of Oak Grove and Vine Hill cemeteries, and make an appropriation for his salary.
ART. 21 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to purchase a chemical fire engine and locate it at Mano- met, and provide a suitable building for it and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 22-To see if the Town will accept sections seventy- four, seventy-five, seventy-six and seventy-seven of Chapter twenty-seven of the Public Statutes.
ART. 23 .- To see if the Town will elect three road com- missioners, one for one year, one for two years and one for three years.
ART. 24 .- To choose all necessary town officers. The following officers to be voted for all on one ballot, viz. : Five Selectmen, Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Auditor, three members of a Board of Health, one for one year, one for two years and one for three years, one Assessor for three years, seven constables, one Overseer of the Poor for three years, two Water Commissioners for three years, four members of the School Committee, two for three years, one for two years, and one for one year; one Park
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Commissioner for three years, and three members of a Com- mittee on Agawam and Half-way Pond Fishery, and to vote by ballot, "Yes," or "No," in answer to the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town?"
The polls for the election of officers and the vote on the license question will be open at the Casino at eight o'clock in the forenoon, on said Saturday, the tenth day of March, 1900, and may be closed at three o'clock in the afternoon. Both of said days will constitute the Annual Meeting, and this call is issued in accordance with the vote of the Town passed June 5, 1897.
And you are hereby required to serve this warrant in the manner prescribed by a vote of the Town, by posting notices thereof in three public places in the Town, seven days at least before the meeting, one of which postings shall be in Chilton- ville, and one in Manomet Ponds, and also by publishing the warrant in the newspapers published in Plymouth, and make return thereof with your doings thereon, at the time and place first above mentioned.
Given under our hands this nineteenth day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred.
CHARLES P. HATCH, JAS. D. THURBER, H. W. BARTLETT, ELKANAH FINNEY, THOMAS D. SHUMWAY, Selectmen of Plymouth.
February 19, 1900.
Plymouth, ss .:
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of the Town of Plymouth, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, are hereby notified to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes therein mentioned.
B. F. GODDARD, Constable of Plymouth.
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