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In this statement the items are based upon the average membership of the schools, 1776. Items 2 and 3 are based upon the whole amount ($45,925.74) which the Committee has spent. less the cost of repairs ($2,611.80), heating ap- paratus ($463.34) and school house sundries ($98.84). The items which make up this amount are payments for sal- aries, transportation, fuel and care of schoolhouses, text- books and supplies, incidentals. The sum thus expended ($42,751.76) is by act of the Legislature, to be regarded as the current expense of the schools, and is the sum to be cer- tified to the State authorities as having been raised by taxa- tion and expended "for the support of the public schools." This sum shows that during the past year the town raised by taxation, and expended for the school support of each child in the average membership (1776) of the schools, the sum of $24.06. The State average on the same basis was $28.49. While the town, in the total expense for its schools ($45.925.74). paid an average of $25.85 for each pu- pil in the average membership. the State average for each child on the same basis was $39.60.
There are 353 cities and towns in Massachusetts. Dur- ing the past year there were 138 of these cities and towns
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which imposed upon themselves a heavier tax for the school support of each child in the average membership of their schools than that of Plymouth, and 214 that imposed upon themselves a lesser tax. There were 211 of these same communities which: paid a larger percentage of their as- sessed valuation for school purposes than Plymouth paid, and only 103 of them that paid less.
SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS.
The larger number of pupils that has appeared at school this fall. has been fairly well provided for. Some rooms at the Knapp school have altogether too many in attendance; and only two or three rooms in that building can provide for any larger numbers that those already there. The present needs of the south part of the town are amply provided for in the new building on Whiting street. This building is well planned for school purposes, well lighted and ventilated. Its substantial construction is well suited to keep it habitable in extremely cold weather, notwithstanding its exposed but sightly location. All the rooms in this building are occu- pied, furnishing comfortable quarters for the 250 pupils in attendance.
Only one or two of the rooms at the Cornish and Burton buildings have more pupils than they can accommodate, and some of those will be relieved when the final transfer of pu- pils to the new school house on Whiting street is made. But there is a fair chance of our needing all the spare room we can find. as soon as the Puritan Mills have secured their increased mill force. About two of every eleven persons in Plymouth are in the public schools. The increased mill population should make an immediate addition of about 100 to the present school enrollment in that part of the town. It does not appear where that increased number of school chil- dren can be accommodated.
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PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
Children five years old, or who will reach that age before the end of the fourth week of school, are admitted to the primary schools during the first four weeks of the fall term only, if they have never before attended school. Children competent to enter existing classes are admitted at any time in the district where they live, if there is room; otherwise, they are sent to the nearest school where there is room.
The whole number of children enrolled in the schools at present is 1917. Of this number 1086, nearly 57 per cent. of the total number, are in the primary schools, grades one to four, inclusive, distributed in twenty-nine school rooms, making an average number of thirty-seven pupils to each teacher. The smallest number in any one room is fifteen, and the largest, forty-nine.
Few, if any, of the primary schools, have a larger number of children in attendance than a capable teacher can fairly well care for. The number assigned to any teacher ought not at any time to be more than forty pupils, but this number must of necessity be larger in some schools, and considerably less in others. It has not been found necessary during the past year to open either of the primary schools at Oak street, or on Alden street; and room has been found in the Cornish school and in the new building at Whiting street, to accom- modate all the children attending the Spring street and the South street schools, and those two buildings are at present
closed. Transfers to the larger buildings were made in both these cases to secure for the children the better accom- modations found there. The Spring street school is a fairly good building, well heated and ventilated; but its location is not at prsent a convenient one for the children who have been attending school there. More suitable quarters, as well as economy render it desirable that the Spring street school re- main closed so long as room can be afforded its pupils at the Cornish school.
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The primary schools are the most important part of every school system. In them is found at any time the large ma- jority of all the children, many of whom never go beyond them. The attitude the children are led to take in these early days is oftenest that which persists through their en- tire school life; and for those who do not go beyond the primary school the ideals and interests they find there furnish the standards by which they measure in later years, the worth of other American institutions, and determine to a large de- gree, the measure of service and sacrifice they are willing to give in support of them. For good reason, therefore, the teachers and teaching, and all opportunities for work in the primary schools should be the best. The essential needs of these schools are fairly well provided for here, and the prim- ary schools are making use of their opportunities to good ad- vantage.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
The grammar schools include grades 5 to 9. The number enrolled in these schools at present is 635, about 33 per cent. of the total school enrollment. They occupy 15 school rooms, making an average number of 39 pupils to each teacher.
Promotions are made in each school by the regular teacher at the end of the school year in June. In doubtful cases the Superintendent is consulted. These promotions are based on the estimate of the pupil's daily work made by the teach- er, and recorded at the end of each month, in the grammar schools, on report cards sent to the parents. When condi- tions seem to justify it, a pupil may be promoted on trial for a month. In such a case, the parent is notified by written form of the intended conditional promotion, and the promo- tion in this form is made only in case the parent gives writ- ten consent thereto. If, at the end of the probationary per- iod, the pupil's work warrants it, the promotion is made for
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the rest of the year. but no pupil is expected to be retained in any class when his interests are best served by his going back to a lower one.
In those buildings where the conditions favor it, we are changing the organization of the Grammar schools so that the children there may work to better advantage. In the Knapp, Cornish and Burton schools, two or more classes of the same grade occupy adjoining school rooms. These classes are divided into groups; and each group, two of which are in each room, is urged to do the tasks assigned as fast as the ability and industry of its members will allow, do- ing as much or as little work in a given time as is suited to their capacity. The work is so planned that each pupil may go from one group to another that is doing more or less work than the group he is leaving; so that at any time he may find some place where the tasks assigned are suited to his strength and capacity. While these children are placed in groups to meet the needs of school organization, it is not intended that the group shall be the unit of consideration, but that the in- ' terest and capacity of each child shall be regarded, as far as it is possible to do so, and that he shall pass from one group to another, naturally and easily, and as often as his indi- vidual needs require it.
The time this method has been tried has not been long enough to give it a fair trial. Some conditions have not favored it. The many changes in teachers this year have been a serious obstacle to the success of this or of any other reasonable plan of work. But under ordinary conditions, we have reason to expect a distinct gain in efficiency of the work done in the classes where this method can be carried out.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Graduates of the grammar schools are admitted to the High School by certificate. No formal examination is re-
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quired, except in the case of those from other places who ap- ply for admission. There were 44 who received certificates last June, and 42 of those receiving them entered the High School in the fall.
At present there are 219 pupils enrolled at the High School building; of these 79 are members of the Ninth grade, who in all respects, save subjects of study, are a part of the High School.
The present current expenses of the High School building are :
Teachers'salaries,
$5,100 00
Janitor,
500 00
Fuel and light,
600 00
$6,200 00
The present membership of the High School is 140 pupils, with six teachers. The work of the school is carried on in four courses, as follows :
Boys.
Girls. Total.
Classical Course,
I
3
4
Science Course,
24
24
48
Literary Course,
I
20
21
Commercial Course.
32
35
67
58
82
140
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- pose. In this way, too, pupils who wish to take a full
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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 advantages of the school are offered to some who would otherwise be barred from them, while the number of classes and the teach- ing work of the school is not materially increased thereby.
The increased number of pupils attending the High School this year, and the much larger number enrolled in the ninth grade, are taxing the capacity of the High School building. The new heating apparatus is making habitable one or two rooms which formerly could not well be used in the winter; but even now more room could be used to ad- vantage in the High School; and if the number in attend- ance there increases as it ought, and as it is likely to do, additional school room will have to be provided there, or in some other building.
All school furniture supplied during the last ten years has been of an approved adjustable pattern, and in most schools the furniture is good and sufficient. When the High School was built and furnished pupils' desks and chairs were placed only in the assembly room. Later desks and chairs that had been used in the old High School for at least twenty years were placed in the different class rooms. These chairs are too small for the pupils who use them; they are inconvenient, unattractive, well worn, and marred by their twenty-five years of service, and should be replaced by other furniture of an adjustable pattern, suited to the needs and uses of the pupils who occupy them.
A good beginning was made three or four years ago by the teachers and pupils of the High School to make the in- terior of that building more attractive by securing pictures and statuary to place upon the walls of the school rooms and hall. A few pictures have been given for the same pur- pose by friends of the school. At a recent meeting the
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High School Alumni voted $25 from their treasury to buy pictures for the school. Any effort of this sort to adorn and render the school attractive is most commendable and it is earnestly hoped that efforts in this same line will be con- tinued and enlarged. There is wide opportunity for any friends of the schools to use to good purpose a little money in supplying not only to the High School, but to any other. school, the means of making the school more attractive and efficient in serving its purpose.
The graduating exercises of the class of 1905 were held at the High School building on Wednesday evening, June 21, 1905.
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CLASS OF 1905.
First Honor in Scholarship, MARY L. JENKINS.
Second Honor in Scholarship, CAROLINE C. MONING.
Graduates.
Lester E. Avery. Harold P. Bartlett,
Franklin H. Gilbert,
John R. Harlow,
Mary A. Burgess,
Saidie A. Hirst.
Helen W. Clark,
Mary L. Jenkins.
Herbert C. Clark,
Bertha E. Milburn,
William G. Curran, Caroline C. Moning.
C. Augustus Forrest,
Isabella E. Norton,
Aurissa W. Savery,
Percival W. Fowler, Philip E. Gerity, Harold P. Sears.
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Certificates.
Mary A. Bradford,
Caroline Wethers.
Alice W. Haire,
Harold B. Paulding,
UNGRADED SCHOOLS.
There are at present four ungraded schools with a total enrolled membership of fifty-two. Two of these schools have each eighteen pupils in attendance, and the other two seven and nine pupils, respectively. Ellisville still furnish- es her two punils, who are carried to Ship Pond at the ex- pense of the town.
The regularity of attendance at the outlying schools has, with one exception, been excellent. While the per cent. of attendance for the whole town was 93, three of these un- graded schools had an average of over 90 per cent. Con- sidering the difficulties in the way of reaching these schools last winter, the effort to secure a regular attendance there is most commendable.
EVENING SCHOOLS.
In accordance with the statutory provision which requires towns of ten thousand or more inhabitants to support even- ing schools, these schools were opened on January 16. Pre- paratory to this, all the larger mills were visited, and over 400 minors, between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one, were examined to determine their ability to read readily and write legibly simple sentences in the English language. Of this number about 225 were found who met this simple edu- cational requirement, and about 160 who could not meet it. The rest, who were under sixteen years of age, and who could not read or write were, under the requirement of the law, sent from the mills to attend the day school.
The present law in regard to employment of minors may be summarized as follows :
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I. No child under the age of fourteen years may be em- ployed in any factory, workshop, or mercantile establish- ment.
2. No child under the age of sixteen may be employed in any factory, workshop, or mercantile establishment unless he can read readily and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, nor then unless his employer procure and keep on file an "age and schooling" certificate for such child, certifying that he can so read and write.
3. No person between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one may be employed in any factory, workshop or mercantile es- tablishment, while a public evening school is maintained, un- less the employer procure and keep on file such certificate as is mentioned in (2). The requirements of (3) have caused us to issue over two hundred age and schooling certificates during the past month, and to provide evening school ac- commodations for about 200 attendants. At present there are about 175 enrolled. All of these, with a few excep- tions. are young men and women between the ages of six- teen and twenty, who are unable to read and write in Eng- lish, and who in order to continue working in the mills, must attend the Evening Schools. Provision has been made for such minors only. But there are many others of these same ages and older, who are able to read and write in English well enough to secure the certificate of competency which relieves them of the necessity of attending Evening School, but who very much desire the opportunity of further school instruction. No provision has been made for these; but it would seem that such further provision should be made; that these schools being at length started. should offer to all those who wish it, ample opportunity of securing elementary school instruction, since it can be offered at a comparatively small additional expense.
Mount Pleasant Schoolhouse.
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TEACHERS.
During the past year seventeen teachers have resigned their positions. These places have been filled, and three ad- ditional teachers have been appointed to new positions. At present there are sixty teachers in active service here; fifteen of whom are appointed, under the tenure of office act, to serve during the pleasure of the committee.
The small increase in teachers' salaries made possible by a more liberal appropriation last year, has enabled us to keep some teachers longer than would have been possible other- wise; but it did not save us from having the greatest number of changes in teachers at the end of the last school year, that has come at any time in the last ten years. Most of these vacancies were caused by higher salaries or larger opportunities offered these teachers elsewhere.
There are few, if any, communities, that do not suffer from these changes in their teaching corps. The growing appre- ciation of the value of the good teacher's service, and the in- creasing demand that she 'be well equipped for her work ;- and, in particular, the requirement of school authorities who know what the essentials of a good teacher are, and who are able to recognize and appreciate what good teaching and a good school are,-the demand that the teachers who are placed in their schools shall not only probably be able to fill the post acceptably, but that they shall have proved their fitness and ability before being placed in such positions, makes the number of candidates who are likely to be consid- ered for vacancies which may occur, very small, unless the financial inducement be comparatively large, and the school opportunities be pleasing and profitable for their best work.
While the average monthly salary for women teachers here has been increased the past year from $44.30 to $47.50, the state average has increased from $55.37 to $57.32, and in places within a radius of forty miles of Boston the aver- age probably shows a much larger increase.
Plymouth
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There are always enough teachers who are willing to fill vacancies here at the salaries Plymouth offers; but the con- tinued demand for a more efficient force of school workers in every intelligent community makes the number of those whom we can secure to fill vacancies an increasingly smaller one year by year; and most often a suitable teacher is found only by diligent search and careful investigation.
But that good teachers shall be found, that a suitable teacher be placed in every school, is the paramount interest of all school authorities; and when any community fails to recognize this fact, and to hold its school officers to a strict account in this particular, it cannot long retain good schools if it happens to have them now. Liberal salaries and the freedom to work without petty hindrances and annoyances are potent inducements to all teachers, to the inefficient and efficient alike. That such inducements may serve their pur- pose it is absolutely necessary that they be offered and re- stricted to those teachers who are worthy of them.
IN GENERAL.
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The work of the past school year has been done very quietly. A few classes have had to work at a disadvantage in temporary quarters, while waiting for the new building, and others have been disturbed by reason of the many changes in teachers; but the harmony of school officers, teachers and pupils has enabled us, notwithstanding difficul- ties, to work to excellent purpose, and to secure good results.
The number of pupils in the schools is steadily increasing, and very soon the enrolled number will reach 2,000. This increased membership makes necessary a larger number of teachers, from year to year, more school rooms with their costly equipment, and an increasingly large appropriation to meet the expense of it all.
During the past ten years Plymouth has been generous in
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supplying ample and suitable accommodations for her pupils. New buildings have been erected, old buildings remodelled, and most of them made more comfortable, healthful, and at- tractive. During the same time, too, a more efficient school organization has been built up, and the more practical needs of the modern school curriculum provided for. There have been substantial gains in these, and in other directions.
But there are other gains to be secured, and in the attempt to secure them, it is desirable that all who have the welfare of the schools in their keeping, remember that attractive school buildings, proper subjects of study, suitable text books, and many other considerations of the same sort, are very desirable; but that the one essential in securing better schools is better teaching; that every real advance in better school work, must be sought and found, if found at all, in the larger ability and stronger and better personal influence of the teachers placed and retained in the schools.
With my sincere appreciation of the help and support of all who have contributed in any way to make the school work of the year a success, this report is respectfully submitted.
FRANCIS J. HEAVENS,
Superintendent.
LIST OF TEACHERS. IN THE SCHOOLS OF PLYMOUTH, MASS.
1905-1906.
High School.
James D. Howlett, Principal, Latin.
Arthur L. Williams, Mathematics.
Elizabeth Mackenzie, Commercial Studies.
Sarah E. Ridlon, History and English.
Nahum Leonard, Science.
Marion Chandler, French and German.
Augusta M. Morton, ninth grade.
Martha A. Clapp, ninth grade.
Spooner Street School.
GRADE.
I. Betty Alden.
Hedge School.
I. Leella F. Barnes. 2. Julia M. Allen.
Allerton Street School. I. Bertha M. Briggs.
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Frederick N. Knapp School.
7-8. Sydney T. Northcott, principal.
6. Lydia E. Holmes.
5. Zelma B. Lucas.
4. Kate G. Zahn.
4. Maude H. Lermond.
3. Georgiana Taylor.
3. Mary W. Burgess.
2. Annie W. Burgess.
I. Elizabeth H. Sampson.
Cold Spring School.
GRADE.
2. Gertrude C. Bennett.
3. Mabel F. Douglas.
Oak Street School.
GRADE.
I. Mary T. Ford. 2-3. Clara W. Mayhew.
Burton School.
GRADE.
8. Charles F. Cole, principal. 7. Katharine A. O'Brien.
4. Theresa A. Rogan.
4. Marion B. Clapp.
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Cornish School.
GRADE.
Addie L. Bartlett, principal.
7. Daisy Benthusen.
6. Bessie R. Leonard.
6. Nina M. Marsh.
5. Georgiana Smith.
5. Elsie V. Trask.
3. Alice L. Gifford.
2. Ethel Egerton.
I.
Alice B. Smith.
Mount Pleasant School.
GRADE.
7-8.
Arthur R. Gledhill, principal.
6.
Nancy S. Allen.
5.
Susan C. Thomas.
4.
Frances M. Wallace.
3.
Annie M. Frost.
Mount Pleasant District.
I. Grace N. Bramhall.
2.
Grace H. Manter.
I-2.
Lizzie E. Mitchell.
1-5
Ethel Neal.
Chiltonville.
GRADE. 6-9. Bertha F. Calkins. I-5. Mary T. Chittenden. I-5. Kate W. Sampson. 1-5. Mary A. Morton.
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Manomet. 6-9. Grace L. Knight. I-5. Lucy H. Hildreth.
Vallerville. UNGRADED. Grace Farrington.
Cedarville.
UNGRADED. Caroline Taylor.
Long Pond.
UNGRADED. Lida M. Bassett.
South Pond.
UNGRADED.
Grace Ellis.
MUSIC. Lottie M. Baker.
DRAWING. Marion F. Holmes.
SLOYD.
Emily M. Drew.
SCHOOLS
Boys
Girls
Average Number
Belonging
Average Daily
Attendance
Per Cent. of
Attendance
Total Days Absence
Number Cases
of Tardiness
Number Cases
of Dismissal
Number Cases
of Truancy
Days Teacher
Times Teacher
No. Visits to Schools
No. Visits by mem-
bers School Com.
Visits by Parents and Others
High
54
74
123.3
118
95.76
994
142
143
0
6
0
42
6
90
Ninth Grade
24
32
50.6
47.4
93.6
580
51
32
0
0
0
13
8
Knapp
185
169
343.3
316.9
92
5139
852
91
20
27
1
248
210
North Primary
62
56
120.3
108.6
90.3
22301%
519
15
18
39
10
103
Cold Spring Primary
43
32
70.6
65.8
93.2
9101/2
135
35
0
0
33
2
80
Burton
93
74
161.6
152.8
94.5
16141/2
333
147
6
3
2
172
362
Cornish
155
165
290
272.7
94
33271%
687
247
8
10
285
2
315
Cornish District Primary
83
76
139.8
128.2
91.7
216712
529
423
12
28
14
70
1
158
Mt. Pleasant
83
89
161.1
152.9
94.9
17931%
422
91
5
8
5
52
1
71
Mt. Pleasant Dist. Primary
62
65
121.6
113.2
92.3
17781%
194
54
5
19
2
47
3
151
Chiltonville
52
47
91.7
84.1
91.7
1485
346
88
1
18
1
10
113
Manomet
33
34
56.3
50
89.1
1489
1099
93
0)
10
2
1
3
6
16
Cedarville
8
12
18
16 1
89.4
305
46
14
0
0
0
6
9
45
South Pond
3
12
9
7.8
87.7
1091/2
63
6
0
18
2
3
0)
28
Long Pond
4
4.7
3.9
82.8
1591/2
132
2
8
9
3
4
Gurnet
2
3.
Totals
956
950
1776.2
1651.7
93
242991/2
5626
1495
225
91
1066
103
1971
891-
Vallerville
10
8
14.2
13.1
92.4
217
76
0
0
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--
Total enroll- ment for Year
was Absent
was Tardy
made by Supt.
194
LIST OF JURORS.
JURY LIST PREPARED BY THE SELECTMEN FOR 1906.
Ames, Charles E., designer.
Armstrong, William, cordage worker.
Atwood, Edward W., jeweller. Avery, Elmer E., milk dealer.
Bagen, William J .. storekeeper. Bailey, Frederick P., plumber.
Barlow, George F., carpenter.
Barry, Redmond F., insurance.
Bartlett, Ephraim D., carpenter.
Beaumont, Thomas C., clerk.
Beever, John A., spinner.
Bennett, Orrin W., stonecutter.
Bennett, Sylvanus S., carpenter.
Beytes, Charles B., cordage worker.
Blanchard, George H., milk dealer.
Bosworth, Daniel M., cordage worker.
Bourne, Herbert N., carpenter. Bramhall, Arthur W., clerk.
Bradford, Edward W., Jr., bookkeeper.
Bradford, Lothrop A., mason.
Broadbent, Edgar N., foreman.
Brown, Percy L., clerk. Bumpus. Warren S., carpenter.
Burgess, Ezra T., carpenter. Carver, Frank H., drug clerk.
Chandler, Arthur J., farmer.
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Chase, George E., assistant treasurer. Churchill, Charles G., carpenter. Clark, Frederick C., marble cutter. Clark, Herbert W., bookkeeper. Clark, Nathaniel T., carpenter. Clough, Edward, grocer. Cole, Guy R., clerk. Cole, Henry H., clothier. Currier, Waldo F., caterer.
Damon, Edwin S. lawyer. Davis, Albert E., baker.
Dunlap, Elmer C., clerk.
Eaton, Charles W., retired.
Ellis, Frank W., rivet maker.
Ellis, Ziba R., farmer.
Flavell, Thomas F., blacksmith.
Fletcher, Albert N., clerk. Fratus, Joseph, caterer. Freeman, Charles M., salesman.
Frost, Charles T., superintendent.
Goddard, Fred A., draughtsman.
Gooding, Earl W., clerk. Gooding, George, jeweller. Hadaway, Augustus S., Jr., fisherman. Haire, George F., clerk.
Harlow, Albert T., carpenter.
Harlow, Charles S., clerk.
Harlow, Elmer, machinist.
Harmon, Alpheus K., salesman.
Harmon, Clarence S., clerk. Harney, Thomas F., plumber.
Hinckley, Philip, cloth finisher. Hobart, George B., bookkeeper.
Hogan, James P., janitor. Holmes, Charles T., steam fitter.
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Holmes. Cornelius C., clerk. Holmes, David, painter. Holmes, Edward C., clerk. Holmes, Franklin M., clerk. Holmes, Isaac T., farmer. Holmes, Lyman A., shipper. Holmes, Stephen, farmer. Horsman, William S., wheelwright.
Howland, George B., conductor. Howland, Carroll D., carpenter. Humphrey, Benjamin E., weaver. Jewell, Roscoe A., farmer. Jones, Walter A. H., engineer. Kelley, Frank C., cordage worker. Kierstead, Alexander, mason. King, Benjamin F., laborer.
Lamb, George, weaver. Lanman, Charles W., ice dealer.
Lanman, Frank H., florist.
Leonard, John W., Jr., bookkeeper.
Loring, Benjamin, jeweller.
Loring, Otto, carpenter. Loring, Walter S., druggist.
Macomber, William J., caterer.
Manter, Joseph L., teamster.
Manter, Walter L., clerk.
Mawbey, Joseph, janitor.
McArdle, John F., shoe dealer.
McKay, Allen D., cordage worker.
McLean, Laughlin D., watchman. Morissey, Herbert, insurance. Morton, William H., clerk. Nelson, Elisha T., farmer. Nightingale, George W., clerk. O'Brien, William H., laundryman.
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Perkins, Thomas M., painter. Quartz, Frank, Jr., grocer. Read, George F., foreman. Robinson. Increase, retired. Rogan, John, contractor. Sampson, Elisha B., mason.
Sampson, Ernest L., contractor.
Sampson, George J., grocer. Sampson, Pelham, teamster. Savery, Nehemiah L., farmer.
Schubert, John C., harness maker.
Shaw, Elwood A., grocer.
Shaw, Thomas, chef. Simmons, Charles C., musician. Simmons, James H., cordage worker. Smith, Charles H., carpenter.
Smith, Lewis F., driver. Stacey, Frank S., rope maker.
Stegmaier, Charles J., overseer. Stone, Fred D., painter. Sullivan, John E., plumber.
Swan, George, Jr., cordage worker. Taylor, William B., teamster. Turner, Edgar S .. cordage.
Wasson, Fred E., harness maker.
Weston, Edmund, cranberry culture.
Wells, Freeman E., retired.
Whiting, Pelham, pilot.
Whitten, Edward W., laborer. Wilson, John B., upholsterer. Wood, George W., provisions. Woodward, George C., shipper.
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 direct- ed to notify and warn the inhabitants of Plymouth, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet in the armory, in said Plymouth, on Saturday, the third day of March, 1906, at 6 o'clock in the forenoon, and in said armory, in said Plymouth, on Saturday, the 24th day of March, 1906, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, to act on the following articles, to wit :
º Article I. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To choose all necessary town officers. The fol- lowing 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 Commit- tee for three years, one Park Commissioner for three years, and three members of a Committee on Agawam and Half- way Pond Fisherv ; 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
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license question will be open at the armory at 6 o'clock in the forenoon, on said Saturday, the 3d day of March, 1906, and may be closed at 3 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 5th, 1897, as amended March 2nd, 1903, and April 2nd, 1904.
Article 3. To hear the reports of the several boards of officers and committees of the Town, and act thereon.
Article 4. To revise and accept a list of jurors prepared by the Selectmen.
Article 5. 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 pro- visions of the law relating to State Aid and Military Aid and to defray the expenses of the Town after Janaury 1, 1906.
Article 6. 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 expedi- ent.
Article 7. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $150.00 to pay the expenses of Memorial Day.
Article 8. To take such action as the Town may see fit in aid of the public library.
Article 9. 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 IO. To see what appropriation the Town will make for the care and improvement of the various public parks and of Training Green.
Article II. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the
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undrawn balance of $467.40 from the Newfields street sewer to the regular sewer account.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the undrawn balance of $31.19 from the new engine house to the regular fire department account.
Article 13. To see if the Town will accept and allow the layout of Towns street, from Stafford street to South street, as laid out by the Selectmen and reported to the Town.
Article 14. To see what action the Town will take in re- gard to fixing the salary of the Town Auditor.
Article 15. To see what action the Town will take to provide better Town House accommodations.
Article 16. To see if the Town will adopt by-laws in re- gard to receiving deposits for the care of burial places.
Article 17. To see if the Town will appoint a committee to consider establishing a meter system for water, including meter rates.
Article 18. To see if the Town will adopt by-laws to protect and preserve the shell fisheries within the Town.
Article 19. To see if the Town will make an appropria- tion for the cultivation, propagation and protection of shell fish.
Article 20. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to declare from time to time a close season for shell fish and to plant and grow shell fish in accordance with the pro- visions of Chapter 282 of the Acts of 1904.
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 Chiltonville, and one in Manomet Ponds, and also by pub- lishing the Warrant in the newspapers published in Plym-
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outh. and make return thereof with your doings thereon, at the time and place above mentioned.
Given under our hands this sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and six.
HORACE M. SAUNDERS, DEXTER H. CRAIG, GEORGE W. BRADFORD, CHARLES W. EATON, FREDERICK D. BARTLETT, Selectmen of Plymouth.
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.
BENJAMIN F. GODDARD, Constable of Plymouth.
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