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Our school work will be simplified and made more effec- tive, too, when the discipline of the school room is of the right kind. There is much waste of time and energy on the
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part of both teacher and pupil in the average school because the conditions there do not favor good work. There is too often a dullness, an aimlessness and restlessness, a lack of in- terest and earnestness which is fatal to speedy and efficient work of any kind. Sometimes this condition is due to the temperature or poor ventilation of the room; or to work be- yond the capacity or ability of the pupils to do; to exercises in which they see no connection or relation and hence no con- scious profit in doing them; or to a long period of hard stim- ulation without a change of occupation. Whatever be the element disturbing the interest of the pupils, the duty and training of the teacher should lead him at once to recognize the difficulty and to apply the proper remedy. Here and there a teacher does not understand the state of affairs. He does not see that there is any difficulty. He honestly believes his school is meeting all reasonable requirements and doing all the work it can. It is such a teacher, and the parents of the pupils of such a teacher. who most often complain of overpressure, and who think that the tasks required of the pupils are beyond their power to do. But the loss of time and energy caused by the teacher's failure to secure and maintain in his school the right conditions for successful work is a sufficient explanation of the small amount and poor quality of work his classes accomplish. Let him make the conditions in his school what they ought to be, and the real cause of an apparently over-crowded course of study will have disappeared.
Tasks of the school will be lighter, and the quality of what is done will be better, when pupils come to school in a fit condition to work. There is a large number of children who come to school day after day unfitted to take up its duties. Either their interest is absorbed in some outside form of amusement, innocent enough in itself, perhaps, but untimely and ill considered; or their energies of body and mind are mainly spent in social excitements and distractions before
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they reach the school. The physical endurance and mental power of pupils in any school do not serve them for both pleasure and profit at the same time. The social demand or the school work must be neglected. It is often the latter. Sometimes, however, the pupil attempts to meet the require- ments of both. Then there soon follow complaints from the home of the exacting demands of the school, and of the se- vere strain upon the pupil which its tasks impose; and the re- sulting failure in school work or signs of over-work or phys- ical exhaustion or nervous debility is credited to the school. The child is attempting the impossible. He is living under conditions certain to unfit him for school or for any serious work. Work does not hurt him; breakdown does not come from that; but from undue stimulation and excitement and nervous energy spent before the school doors are reached.
Another source of relief is afforded us by applying in all proper cases the law of correlation. The principle involved in this law is a very simple one, but it is not always easily ap- plied. Correlation is merely the "Common-sense method of so grouping and relating like topics in the different subjects that they will mutually explain, relieve, and at the same time strengthen each other." It is following the line of least re- sistance. A correlated course of study would mean that the principles of drawing are taught in connection with nature work, Geography, History, or any other subject which lends itself to art expression; that certain epochs of English history are studied in connection with American history; that spell- ing is based upon the reading lesson; that penmanship is an exercise connected with bookkeeping and business forms; that language is taught by permitting the work in other sub- jects-in any subject-in which the child has an interest and with which he is familiar, to form the occasion and material for expression, either oral or written, in the language exer- cise. In this way many good schools are saving time, reliev- ing pressure, and are securing a livelier interest in their work.
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Especially the relief from over-pressure in school work is to be found in better teaching. Ideal conditions in pupils or school will not continue long or prove of much value while they last, where poor teaching is done. It is difficult for the ordinary community to realize this fact or for school com- mittees to appreciate it. They are demanding and securing better buildings, more comfortable sittings and improved ventilation with greater vigor than they are demanding bet- ter teaching. That lags behind. But with it the schools can easily do much more work than they are now doing, and without giving any cause for the complaint of over-pressure.
The most important product of good instruction on the part of the teacher is an answering interest in his work on the part of the pupil. This product is of vast importance. It is a large factor in all good work; it is, therefore, a con- scious purpose in all good teaching to arouse it. This inter- est is a good preventive of fatigue and over-work; without. it, the merest task is burdensome. "One hour of work in which the pupil can take no intelligent interest will wear him out more than two hours of work in which he can not heip being interested. Now the trouble with much of the work in the public schools is that it is profoundly and inevitably uninteresting to the childish mind. The best way to dimin- ish strain is to increase interest, attractiveness, and the sense of achievement and growth."
And so, while progressive schools and alert committees are pressing for the best material equipment for work in their schools, they are also looking earnestly for better teach- ing. They are seeking more of the kind that knows how to make the scanty equipment of the school room contribute to resourcefulness in the pupils, and the kind that is superior to devices and methods, because it is master of them. They are looking for the sort of teaching that can create in the child a present motive for his work; that can show him a real relation between his school tasks and his present needs and
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experiences, that can call forth in him a spirit of alertness and confidence to meet and master new conditions; that can arouse in him a large respect for honest work and patient try- ing, and a disposition to persevere in tasks often found irk- some, because he feels a conscious sense of his ability at length to succeed. This better teaching, when it comes, will furnish all needed relief, and leave no room for complaint of over work in the schools.
The closing exercises of those who had finished the Gram- mar school course were held at the High School, June 27, 1902.
CLASS OF 1902.
Chiltonville School.
Horace Irving Allen. Cora Elizabeth Howland.
Fannie Adelaide Hoxie.
Ellisville School.
Clarence Ellis Chandler. Ernest Clifton Ellis.
Cornish School.
Mabel Frances Bartlett.
*Helen Elizabeth Johnson.
Mary Anna Bodell.
Emily May Campbell.
Alma May Carleton.
Mabel Gertrude Churchill. *Hueston Collingwood. *Julia May Corey.
Adeline Zerish Maker.
Alice Josephine McArdle. Isabell McGurn.
Alma Nehemiah Nickerson.
Lydia Warren Powers.
Louise Otis Freeman.
Annie May French.
Henry Thomas Geary.
Robert Louis Hall.
Porter Temple Harlow. Ethel Franklin Hayden.
William Squires Shaw.
Helen Warren Smith.
William George Kelliher. Joseph Vincent Lodi. / Ruth Loft.
Frank Henry Donlevy.
Margaret Monroe Eagan.
Louis Clyfton Robbins.
Harold Gardner Roberts.
Adolf Louis Schreiber. J. Henry Shaw.
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Isabell May Hirst. E. Owen Strong. Philip Winslow Hobart. Madeline Geneva Swan. Charles Franklin Walker.
Clara Stetson Howland.
Manomet School.
George Edwin Bartlett. Annie Edith Cole.
Mary Sophronia Chase. Emily Marie Fischer.
Florence Redmond Griswold.
Mount Pleasant School.
Rosie Bass. *Milton Russell Howland.
Beatrice Munroe Butler.
Arthur Thomas Paty.
Mary Louise Ferdinand.
*Morris Edward Resnick.
Grace Bradford Holmes.
Chester Ellis Rogers.
Ethel May Horsman.
William Gideon Tripp.
Lottie Hughes. Adrian Porter Whiting.
Rebecca Trimble Robbins.
Willard Clark Whiting.
UNGRADED SCHOOLS.
There are at present four ungraded schools with a total membership of 48. The largest of these schools is at Cedarville with a membership of 19, and the smallest at South Pond, having a membership of 7. The cost of sup- porting these schools is about $35 for each child in average membership. The cost for each child in the smallest school is nearly $62, or three times the average cost for each child in the other schools of the town. These schools are of large interest to the small community in which they are located. 3 People living there rarely find it convenient to give their children the larger privileges of a high school. The children usually begin and end their school days in the rural school. There is the largest opportunity here for the right kind of teaching. The teacher to succeed needs to be of exceptional ability, and to possess training and exper-
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ience. But such teachers are rarely found willing to oc- cupy these positions; and those who develop a fitness to do well the work in such schools, develop it only to think they should immediately be transferred to a larger field. But the teacher with the right qualifications who will labor in such a community, will find no field more fruitful of good results and no people more appreciative of her labors in be- half of their children than those she finds in the rural school and community.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Graduates of the Grammar schools are admitted to the High School without examination. There were 58 of such graduates last June, 53 of whom entered the High School in the fall. The present membership of the High School is 138 pupils and six teachers. This number is increased by the members of the Ninth grade, who, with one teacher, are making their home in the High School building. There are about fifty pupils in this class, and they are seated in the main room with the other members of the school. This fills the seating capacity of the assembly room of the High School, and every classroom is in use.
The present current expenses of the High School are : Teachers' salaries, $5,350.00 450.00 600.00
Janitor, Fuel and Light,
$6,400.00
The large opportunities and equipment of the High School building are being used this year to excellent ad- vantage. The school is now providing quarters for as many as it can well accommodate. The Ninth grade pupils are finding a pleasant home there, and their stay is pro- ducing very satisfactory results. The work the class is do- ing is good in both quantity and quality.
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The course of study for the Ninth grade has not in any way been changed. It is still on the same lines as ten years ago. For some time the experience of other schools has seemed to show that we could modify our course of work to advantage. The conditions under which this class is now doing its work make the present a favorable oppor- tunity for this change. We begin our work in modern language too late. If it could be started when the child was ten years old or younger, it would be far better than to wait, as we have to do now, until he is fourteen or fifteen. At the earlier age the work could be done more naturally and far more successfully. We can gain a little, I am sure, by starting this work with pupils who may elect it, in the year before they regularly begin the High School course. What work of this kind, if any, would be best suited to the class, what amount of time can be given to it, and what pu- pils, if not all, may take it, are matters for the consideration of the Committee.
The work of the High School is carried on in four courses as follows :
Boys
Girls
Total
Classical Course,
5
I
6
Scientific Course,
19
29
48
Literary Course,
II
33
44
Commercial Course,
27
I3
40
I38
Each of the four courses named above ordinarily requires four years for its completion. The student in the Classical course sometimes needs to do an additional year's work to meet college requirements for admission. With a few re- strictions such as seem necessary to prevent waste of time by injudicious or careless selection of subjects, any student for whom. a full course is unnecessary or impossible may ordinarily take a special or partial course suited to his pur-
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pose. In this way, too, pupils who wish to take a full course, but who, for reasons of health are not able to do so, may make the work of each year easier by doing it more leisurely, taking five or more years to complete the regular four years' course. By such an arrangement the ad- vantages of the school are offered to some who would other- wise be barred from them, while the number of classes and the teaching work of the school is not materially increased thereby.
"The year has shown considerable growth in the larger High Schools along the line of liberal electives, and especially of commercial courses. If present tendencies continue, it will not be many years before substantial com- mercial courses will be a feature of every first-class High School in the State. The teaching in these branches is of- ten the most efficient in the school,-that is, the best adapted to attain the aims sought. The teachers are more individual and original, and are not hampered so much as in the classics and some branches of mathematics by traditional usage and the methods by which they themselves were in- structed."
We were especially fortunate when a Commercial Course was made a regular part of our High School work, in de- ciding to make it a full four years' course, and in attempt- ing to make the work of equal dignity and importance with that in any other course. From the beginning it has af- forded opportunity, with work in the distinctly so called Commercial subjects, for a thorough training in English and History. It affords no convenient resting place for pupils who are seeking easy tasks, or for those who are un- able to do the work in other subjects. The work in this course requires as much time and intelligent effort as the work in any other course. We know of no stronger course in any High School of the same standing as our own, or any more efficiently conducted.
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The High School is doing good work in all its courses. The school is well equipped and managed. There is earnest, well directed effort by the teachers in every depart- ment, and the pupils show in their work a spirit of endeavor which is bringing excellent results.
The graduating exercises of the Class of 1902, Plymouth High School, were held Thursday, June 19, 1902.
Graduates.
Harry R. Talbot.
Amy Holmes.
Ethel C. Bartlett.
Alton E. Sears.
Clarence D. Bradford.
Arthur Shougnessy.
Inez F. Churchill.
Myra A. Cobb.
Lillian E. T. Burgess.
Zelma B. Lucas.
Ida W. Hall.
Alfred H. Avery.
L. Chester Tripp.
Ellen E. Powers.
May E. Hallinan.
Katherine L. Stegmaier.
John G. Doten.
Alice L. Gifford.
Chas. B. Howland.
Ethel L. Holmes.
Roland W. Vaughan.
TEACHERS.
There are at present fifty-one teachers on the roll. Dur- ing the year two new teachers have been appointed to posi- tions caused by opening new schools, and seven others have been appointed to fill vacancies.
The work of the schools has been interrupted to an un- usual extent the past year by reason of the illness of teach- ers. When teachers have to be absent from their work, it is most difficult to find persons suitable to fill their places. Rather than put in these places substitutes who are un- familiar with the work and unable to control the pupils, it is better to close the schools for a day or two. In this way some schools have lost considerable time and work, and they will continue to do so unless some provision is made to
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meet such emergencies. It would be to the advantage of the schools if the Committee should select three or four suitable persons to keep themselves in touch with the work of the dif- ferent grades, and who would hold themselves ready to take the places of teachers who have to be absent.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The work of the schools is being hampered more serious- ly every year because of the absence of pupils who are said to be out on account of some contagious or other dangerous disease in the family. The rules of the Board of Health in this respect are strict, and rightly so; but very often chil- dren are out on this pretext who ought to be in school, and others are sent to school who ought to be at home. The Board of Health is very prompt to report to the Committee cases of contagious disease; but because that Board has to await the report of the physician, the harm is often done be- fore we know the danger. In some cases when a child is ill, no physician is called and the other children of the family are sent to school as usual. When contagious dis- ease is at all prevalent, some parents keep their children at home lest they be exposed to the disease by children coming from a family where an unreported case of sickness may exist. We need a more rigid oversight in such matters for the advantage of all concerned. How best such over- sight may be exercised is not clear.
Medical inspection of the schools is coming to be recog- nized as one of the necessary means of keeping the schools free from any disease dangerous to health. This work is done by a competent physician appointed by the School Com- mittee. In some places such inspection is carried on in a broad and efficient manner. Not only is it the duty of the inspector to see that no form of contagious disease finds its way into the schools, but it considers the condition of the pupils in regard to personal defects and cleanliness. De-
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fective eyesight and hearing are carefully tested; and the physical and mental condition of abnormal children investi- gated. Where medical inspection has been tried, the re- sults have been good. The importance of the work done in this way is being widely recognized. A bill was be- fore the Legislature this year making such inspection man- datory upon all cities and towns in the Commonwealth. How this matter may best be cared for here is not clear. But the problem is worth the consideration of the Committee.
The sounding of the signal for "no school" has by vote of the Committee been discontinued for the present. The management of the signal has worked no more successfully here than in many other towns where it has been tried. There are good reasons why the arrangement has not been satisfactory in Plymouth. It could apply only to the schools in the center of the town. There are at least eleven schools which it could not affect. Each parent knows the condition of his own child; whether or not it would be wise for him to breast the storm to attend school, and it should be the duty of teachers and all interested in the school ser- vice to be ready to receive all pupils whose parents think it advisable for them to come. No one is so well able to judge in these matters as the parent; therefore, in view of many failures to secure the right results, it was thought best to discontinue the signal and leave the responsibility of deciding when it is too stormy for a child to go to school with the parent, where it naturally belongs.
In conclusion, I wish to express to the members of the Committee my appreciation of their support and confidence; to the teachers, for their earnest efforts for all that has con- cerned the welfare of the schools; and to the many others who are appreciative of the difficulties as well as the satis- faction of school administration.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANCIS J. HEAVENS, Superintendent of Schools.
LIST OF TEACHERS.
IN THE SCHOOLS OF PLYMOUTH, MASS.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Geo. F. Kenney, Principal, English and Latin. Winifred G. Hill, Mathematics and Greek.
Nellie Carpenter, History and English. May L. Booth, German and French. M. Edith Winslow, Commercial Studies. Mary W. Cross, Science.
Augusta M. Morton, Ninth Grade.
NORTH SCHOOLS.
GRADE.
I. Betty Alden. I. Leella F. Barnes.
1. Elizabeth H. Sampson.
2. Mary W. Burgess.
2. Gertrude C. Bennett.
3. Adelaide G. Irwin.
FREDERICK N. KNAPP SCHOOL.
GRADE.
6-7. Katharine A. O'Brien. 5. Lydia E. Holmes. 4. Kate G. Zahn. 3. Pearl Pennington.
I-2. Georgiana E. Taylor.
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BURTON SCHOOL.
GRADE.
8.
Charles F. Cole.
5. Susan C. Thomas.
4. Teresa A. Rogan.
3.
Alice H. Blackmer.
CORNISH SCHOOL.
GRADE.
7. Addie L. Bartlett.
6.
Mabel K. Davis.
6.
Lola W. Randall.
5.
Edna M. Dunning.
RUSSELL STREET DISTRICT.
GRADE.
I-2. Bertha M. Briggs.
I-2.
Mary T. Ford.
1-2.
Annie W. Cobb.
3-4.
Mary A. Casey.
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MOUNT PLEASANT SCHOOL.
GRADE.
7-8.
Arthur R. Gledhill.
5-6.
Nancy S. Allen.
4.
Esther C. Manter.
3.
Annie M. Frost.
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MOUNT PLEASANT DISTRICT.
GRADE.
I. Deborah Howland.
2. Frances E. Weston.
I-2. Lizzie E. Mitchell.
I-4. Mabel Douglass.
CHILTONVILLE.
GRADE.
6-9. William Keyes.
I-5. Martha W. Whitmore.
1-5. Kate W. Sampson.
I-5. Mary A. Morton.
MANOMET.
GRADE.
6-9. Anna J. Billings. 1-5. Julia M. Allen.
VALLERVILLE.
Ungraded.
Grace Farrington.
CEDARVILLE.
Ungraded.
Lucy Moon.
LONG POND.
Ungraded.
Alice M. Gifford.
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Ungraded.
SOUTH POND. Marion Collingwood.
Music. Minnie M. Jameson.
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Drawing. Cordelia J. Stanwood.
Sloyd.
Elizabeth Paine.
Plymouth
SCHOOL RECORD: REPORT FOR SCHOOL YEAR 1901-1902.
SCHOOLS.
Total Enrollment
for Year.
Belonging
Attendance
Attendance.
Total Days Absence.
No. Cases of Tardiness.
No. Cases of Dismissal.
No. Cases of Truancy
Days Teacher was Absent.
Times Teacher was Tardy.
No. Visits to Schools made
by Superintendent.
No. Visits by Members of
School Committee.
Visits by Parents and
Others.
High School
67
74
129.4
117.1
93.7
1510
184
226
0
3
0
120
12
148
Knapp School
86
84
160.9
145.9
90.7
2230
863
119
11
20
1
91
17
120
North Primary School
62
65
125.5
113.1
90.
2312
369
52
1
11
38
6
52
Cold Spring Primary School
62
73
120.
108.6
90.5
2022
548
30
13
33
6
31
4
86
Burton School
116
87
182.7
166.8
91.3
2769
941
142
17
7
10
154
18
153
Cornish School
102
97
176.2
162.
92.1
2762
553
150
9
24
11
221
20
79
Cornish Dist. Primary School
80
95
159.2
143.3
90.
3105
558
147
10
173
0
72
13
176
Mt. Pleasant School
107
94
180.8
162.5
90.
3512
700
356
17
16
10
90
10
44
Mt. Pleas. Dist. Prim. Schools,
62
67
120.2
109.2
91.
2108
419
66
2
51
22
14
5
328
Chiltonville Schools
47
42
83.
77.
92.4
1012
465
76
0
12
9
17
1
153
Manomet Schools
33
32
50.
41.6
83.
1530
341
28
1
OC
3
11
6
77
Ship Pond School
=
16
4.2
3.8
91.
77
15
3
0
3
1
5
3
3
Cedarville School
=
15
17.8
15.5
87.2
368
86
14
0
0
2
5
2
6
South Pond School
4
or
7.8
7.6
97.
38
28
3
0
0
13
6
1
-1
Long Pond School
or
4
8 6
7.4
86.0
250
63
5
0
2
0)
5
3
36
Totals
859
843
1538.4
1391.7
90.5
26003
6308
1232
81
382
92
949
124
1466
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Boys
Girls
Average Number
Average Daily
Per Cent. of
398
175
15
0
5
9
3
6
Ellisville School
4
12.1
10.2
83.
Reported by Teachers.
LIST OF JURORS.
List of Jurors prepared by the Selectmen in accordance with Chapter 176, of the Revised Laws:
Atwood, Edward B., lumber dealer.
Atwood, Edward W., jeweler.
Bachelder, John L., rivet maker.
Bagnell, T. Allen, shipping clerk.
Bailey, Frederick P., plumber. Baker, Edward W., clerk.
Barnes, Harrison O., painter.
Barrows, William H., rivet maker.
Bartlett, Edwin P., farmer.
Bartlett, Ephraim D., carpenter.
Bennett, George V., assistant postmaster.
Bennett, Orrin W., stone cutter.
Bennett, Sylvanus S., carpenter.
Bent, Walter E., carpenter. Bittinger, Fred W., printer. Bittinger, Joseph F., printer.
Blanchard, George H., milk dealer. Bosworth, Leslie F., machinist. I
Bradford, Edward W., Jr., bookkeeper.
Bradford, Lothrop A., mason.
Burgess, Ezra T., carpenter. Burns, Alfred S., clerk. Carleton, Frank L., motorman.
Carleton, John W., bookkeeper. Chandler, Albert L., bookkeeper.
Chandler, Arthur J., farmer.
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Chase, Walter H., grocer. Clark, James H., foreman.
Clark, William H., superintendent. Clough, Edward, grocer.
Cobb, Walter B., shoemaker. Cole, Henry H., clothier.
Cooper, James W., druggist.
Corey, Addison R., clerk.
Davis, Albert E., baker.
Doten, Charles S., farmer.
Douglas, Charles E., baker.
Douglas, Howard M. clerk.
Drew, Harrison W., sail maker.
Eaton, Charles W., retired.
Edes, Alton D., superintendent. Ellis, Ziba R., farmer.
Finney, Alfred C., milkman.
Finney, Charles W., machinist. Finney, Clark, teamster.
Finney, Frank S., bookkeeper.
Finney, John R., conductor.
Fraher, John P., clerk.
Hadaway, Augustus S., Jr., fisherman. Hall, John F., laborer.
Harlow, Albert T., carpenter.
Harlow, Charles B., provision dealer.
Harris, Charles F. H., tack maker.
Hatch, Charles P., retired. Hedge, Isaac L., ice dealer.
Hobart, George B., clerk. Holmes, Stephen, farmer. Howland, Carroll D., carpenter.
Howland, George B., conductor. Howland, Louis B., clerk. Jackson, Nathaniel R., collector.
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Jewell, Roscoe A., farmer. Jordan, Frank, pharmacist. Kingan, Joseph M., laborer. Lahey, Jeremiah J., grocer.
Lanman, Charles W., ice dealer. Lanman, Nathaniel G., shoemaker.
Leach, Edmund M., painter.
Loring, Otto, carpenter.
Manter, Joseph L., teamster.
Marshall, John H., foreman.
Mawbey, Joseph, janitor.
Moore, Charles E., dry goods dealer.
Morissey, Herbert, insurance agent.
Morton, John L. carpenter.
Nelson, Elisha T., farmer.
Paty, Fred W., oil dealer.
Perkins, Isaac H., mason.
Pierce, Branch H., laborer.
Ransom, Levi, hackman.
Raymond, Benjamin F., superintendent.
Read, George R., foreman.
Riedel, Henry, tacker.
Rich, Albert S., plumber.
Rich, Sylvanus, clerk.
Rogers, Charles R., cranberry grower. Sampson, Ernest L., mason.
Sampson, George J., clerk.
Sampson, Ossian M., tacker.
Sampson, Pelham, teamster.
Saunders, George E., carpenter.
Sears, Benjamin W., mariner. Shumway, Thomas D., dentist.
Smith, Adoniram J., superintendent.
Smith, Charles A., news dealer.
Snow, William N., furniture dealer.
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Sproul, William F., grocer.
Strong, Charles A., dry goods dealer.
Taylor, Charles E., box manufacturer. Taylor, William B., laborer.
Wade, Harrison W., janitor. Wall, George W., teamster.
Ward, Ira C., lumber dealer.
Waters, John F., telephone manager.
Watson, Thomas R., nurseryman.
Welch, Michael D., plumber.
Whiting, Benjamin, nurse.
Whiting, Herbert F., carpenter. Whiting, Pelham, pilot.
Zahn, Charles, shoe dealer.
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 di- rected to notify and warn the inhabitants of Plymouth, qual- ified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in Davis Opera House in said Plymouth, on Monday, the second day of March, 1903, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and in the Casino, in said Plymouth, on Saturday, the seventh day of March. 1903. at six o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the following articles, to wit :
Article I. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To hear the reports of the several boards of officers and committees of the Town and act thereon.
Article 3. To revise and accept a list of Jurors prepared by the Selectmen.
Article 4. To see if the Town will authorize the Treas- urer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes, and for disbursement under the provisions of the law relating to State Aid and Military Aid, and to defray the expenses of the Town after January I, 1904.
Article 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 exped- ient.
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Article 6. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $150.00 to pay the expenses of Decoration Day.
Article 7. To take such action as the Town may see fit in aid of the Public Library.
Article 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.
Article 9. To see what appropriation the Town will make for the care and improvement of the various public parks, and of Training Green.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to build a new stable, and make an appropriation therefor.
Article II. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 for the purchase of two watering carts, the erection of necessary stand pipes and the sprinkling of the streets for the coming year.
Article 12. To see if the Town will authorize the Se- lectmen to issue bonds or notes of the Town to an amount not exceeding $2,000 to raise money for extension of wa- ter pipes.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote that the va- rious departments of the Town shall pay the Water De- partment for water used by such departments.
Article 14. To see if the Town will appropriate one thousand dollars ($1,000) to purchase from the estate of the late Nathaniel Morton the Barnes field, so-called, on Lin- coln street, for a play ground for the High School, under the control of the School Committee.
Article 15. To see if the Town will appropriate fifteen hundred dollars for the heating and ventilation of the Corn- ish schoolhouse.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to erect a new Engine House on South street.
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Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to build an ad- dition to the Central Fire Station.
Article 18. To see if the Town will appropriate an amount not exceeding $900.00. for the purchase of a new boiler for Steam Fire Engine No. 3.
Article 19. To see if the Town will appropriate an amount not exceeding $350.00 for the purchase and install- ing of new Fire Alarm boxes.
Article 20. To see if the Town will authorize the Se- lectmen to issue bonds or notes of the Town to an amount not exceeding $12.000.00, for the purpose of raising money for a new Engine House on South street, and an addition to the Central Fire Station.
Article 21. To see if the Town will authorize the Com- mittee. appointed "to examine into the matter of restoring Eel River to its recent course to the harbor." to build a breakwater on Plymouth Beach to protect said river from overflow. when reopened by the U. S. Government to the harbor.
Article 22. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to issue bonds or notes of the Town for the purpose of raising money to be expended on the construction of a breakwater on Plymouth Beach to protect Eel River when reopened by the U. S. Government to the harbor.
Article 23. To see if the Town will adopt by-laws regu- lating children being on the streets at night. (By request. ) Article 24. To submit to the voters of the Town, Sec. I. Chap. 344. Acts of 1899. To a referendum vote. To
wit : Eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all la- borers, workmen and mechanics now employed. or who may hereafter be employed by or on behalf of the Town of Plym- outh in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ( By peti- tion. )
Article 25. To see if the Town will adopt Chapter 103 of the Revised Laws.
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Article 26. To see what action the town will take in regard to the adoption of plumbing regulations, as provided in Chapter 103 of the Revised Laws.
Article 27. To see what action the Town will take in regard to building a hospital for contagious diseases, and raise and appropriate any money the action of the town may require.
Article 28. To see if the Town will fix the date of the an- nual meeting for the election of Town Officers on the first Monday of March, and for transaction of other busi- ness of the annual meeting on the first Monday of April. (By request. )
Article 29. To see what action the Town will take in regard to making alterations and improvements to the build- ings on Town Square, lately purchased by the Town, and make an appropriation therefor.
Article 30. 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, one member of a Board of Health for three years, one Assessor for three years, seven Constables, one Overseer of the Poor for three years, two Water Commis- sioners for three years, two members of the School Com- mittee for three years, one Park Commissioner for one year, one Park Commissioner for three years, and three members of a Committee on Agawam and Halfway Pond Fishery; and to vote by ballot, "Yes" or "No," in answer to the ques- tion. "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 six o'clock in the forenoon, on said Saturday, the seventh day of March, 1903, 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 a vote of the Town passed June 5, 1897.
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And you are required to serve this warrant in the man- ner 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 Chiltonville and one in Manomet Ponds, and also by pub- lishing the warrant in the newspapers published in Plym- outh, and make return thereof with your doings thereon, at the time and place first above mentioned.
Given under our hands this eighteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and three.
HORACE M. SAUNDERS,
DEXTER H. CRAIG,
PELHAM E. MANTER,
IRA C. WARD,
HENRY O. WHITING,
Selectmen of Plymouth.
February 18, 1903.
PLYMOUTH, ss.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Plymouth, qualified to vote in election and Town affairs, are hereby notified to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes therein mentioned.
SAMUEL FERGUSON,
Constable of Plymouth.
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