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Miss Andrews, of Ward One, and Miss Jackson, of Ward Two, have been removed by death. Fully meriting the public approval they have received, they have written their names in letters of love on the hearts of their pupils; but " those who knew them best loved them most."
We have been able so successfully to fill these vacancies, as to cause but temporary embarrassment to the schools. The town has derived great benefit from the Salem Normal School, of which a large number of our teachers and substitutes are graduates, bringing to our schools the help of its systematic training and thorough mental culture.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
Our Primary Schools are three in number, with one Sub- Primary. Our teachers are all deeply interested in their work, well adapted to it, deserving the success which attends their labors. Perhaps few parents realize the additional burden im- posed upon them by the large amount of oral instruction now given, beneficial to the pupil but exhausting to the teacher.
Instead of the formidable alphabet (often so slowly and tear- fully learned), by easy steps the little ones find themselves reading and writing, while a happy freedom has succeeded the severity which frowned upon the dropping of a pencil, or a glance at a neighbor in the rear. Weariness is prevented by frequent changes of position, singing, blackboard exercises, etc.,
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while the neatness and legibility of the writing and figures which they exhibit with so much pride, is surprising.
Object teaching, while it attracts, also stimulates and de- velops.
OUR TWO INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS
are doing an important part in preparing for the regular Gram- mar School studies.
As " tbe later teaching is dependent on the earlier," the evil effects of work imperfectly done here will be felt in the more advanced departments, where the time sometimes spent in re- viewing and strengthening weak foundations should be more profitably employed. The difference in grade of the schools of the various wards has prevented the adoption of a uniform course of study throughout the town, so that in some wards this work comes into other grades.
This cannot well be remedied, without multiplying the num- ber of the schools beyond the actual needs. The record of these teachers is a good one.
OUR TWO MIXED SCHOOLS
are doing all that could be expected. In Ward One, irregularity in attendance, the large number of classes, with a change of teachers, have hindered the work of the year; yet with good material and a newly awakened enthusiasm, greater advance- ment may be expected. In Ward Five the small number of pupils would dishearten a less enthusiastic teacher ; but though small in numbers, we regard this school as of interest and impor- tance, and its teacher as able and faithful.
OUR THREE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS
deserve favorable mention. The successful experience of two of the teachers (which the third promises to equal) is well
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known. Some original and interesting methods of teaching the different branches have met our approval in each.
As the schools are open to the public, details are unneces- sary. We aim to have fair attainments in the regular Gram- mar School studies, and as nothing higher is required, we ex- pect thorough instruction in these.
THE HIGH SCHOOL,
whose establishment was for a long time considered of doubtful expediency, has won for itself the approbation of a majority of our citizens, who gladly avail themselves of its facilities for the education of their children. We have endeavored to place at its head the best available talent; teachers who shall not only be competent to instruct, but possess aptness to teach and ability to awaken that enthusiasm which is an essential element of success in the pursuit of knowledge.
Want of funds prevents our placing in the school apparatus which would aid in the practical application of science, and greatly facilitate instruction.
The grade of admission is lower than that of towns able to afford masters for the Grammar Schools, making the average age of entrance young, and requiring the first part of the junior year to be devoted to a continuance of Grammar School studies.
The age required for the admission of boys to the High Schools of Boston is thirteen, for girls fourteen. The addition of another year to the course may eventually seem desirable, giving opportunity for still further advancement, without over- taxing the pupils.
ATTENDANCE.
The attendance has been largely diminished by the preva- lence, during the different terms, of scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles, especially during the winter term. The general
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desire to attend has been gratifying, and speaks well for both teachers and pupils. In Ward Two the attendance is affected by the manufacturing interest, which takes a part of the schol- ars from school, all but the twenty weeks' yearly attendance required by law.
One set of workers coming in at one season, and another succeeding them, adds greatly to the labor of the teachers, who also find discipline more difficult to maintain among those scholars who for so large a portion of the year are free from the restraints of the schools.
TEXT-BOOKS.
At the first regular meeting of the board it was voted " that there be no change of text-books for the ensuing year," and though it might sometimes have been an improvement, from pecuniary motives we have refrained from so doing.
VENTILATION
is a matter of vital importance, as it affects not only the com- fort, but the health, of both teachers and pupils. Our teach- ers pay considerable attention to it, throwing open windows during recess to effectually change the air, and urging their pupils to take out-of-door exercise whenever the state of the weather or their health will permit. They should not be al- lowed, upon re-entering the school-room, over-heated from exercise, to be near an open window or sit in currents of air. Both teachers and janitors should see that the school-room is thoroughly ventilated at the close of every school session. Rooms where the air is pure and fresh are much more easily heated than those that are poorly ventilated or filled with nox- ious gases. Failures in recitation may sometimes result from headache or lassitude, caused by ill-ventilated or over-heated rooms, which also have a tendency to make children restless
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and disorderly. It is difficult to regulate the temperature of rooms heated by stoves, the effort to make the more remote sitter comfortable, often causing the discomfort of others.
The Sub-Primary school-room in Ward Two has been poorly ventilated for several years, but the efforts of Mr. Jackson, at a trifling cost, seem to have remedied these evils. Some of the other school-rooms might be similarly benefited.
VACCINATION.
This subject was placed in the hands of Mr. Jackson, who issued a circular notifying delinquents of the requirements of the law, with satisfactory results, in most schools. It is ear- nestly hoped that this matter will be still more fully attended to.
EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS.
In the absence of the chairman, this matter was placed in the hands of the second truant officer, Mr. Jackson, who has faithfully attended to it. The work of examining and prepar- ing the certificates required by law demands a larger amount of time and labor than is generally known.
EXPENSES.
Our statistics show that the sum of five hundred dollars, appropriated by the town for the purpose of lengthening the school year to thirty-nine weeks, and adding a small weekly increase to the wages of the teachers, has been thus used. Notwithstanding this increase, they are still paid less than in most towns in this vicinity ; the salaries of our Grammar School teachers and High School assistant being less than those paid for the lowest grade of schools in Lynn, while the amount paid the principal of the High School the past year exceeds by only ten dollars the maximum salary of the fourth assistant teachers
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in the Boston primary schools, and is less than ever before paid a male principal of our High School; the wages in the other grades being correspondingly low.
But for the fact that most of our teachers are residents of the town (but two non-residents), we should not expect our fellow- citizens to find themselves so ably and faithfully served, without an increase of expenditure.
It is often argued that the present prices are sufficiently re- munerative, when the actual number of hours spent in the school-room are considered ; but few can be ignorant of the large amount of "out of school" work required in the prepara- tion and examination of papers, or the exhaustion of brain and nerve attendant upon the duties of the school-room.
As the matter of heating the High school-room has not been under the direction of this board, we are not prepared to say that it has been done in the most economical manner. It would seem proper that some responsible person connected with the school-room should have access to the furnace, during school hours, with power to regulate draughts, as in this variable climate changes of temperature have been known to occur be- tween 8 and 12 A. M.
Your committee have endeavored so carefully to expend the funds intrusted to their charge, that no body of malcontents shall petition for legislative enactment to prevent excess of ex- penditure. Knowing the tax-payers to be already heavily bur- dened, we ask only for last year's appropriation, but more could be judiciously expended.
DISCIPLINE.
Teachers are instructed to practise such discipline as would be exercised by a kind and judicious parent in his family. In school (as in parental) government the best disciplinarians are
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those who combine gentleness with firmness, seeking to attract and stimulate, realizing that excessive fault-finding, with loud and harsh tones, serves but to exasperate and repel. Some of our schools are so judiciously managed that punishment is seldom necessary. We are not yet educated up to the entire abolition of corporal punishment, for while many an unruly scholar has been won by gentleness and tact, with a careful noting of his temperament and peculiarities, yet, if obedience and respectful deportment cannot be thus secured, other means must be resorted to, for his own good, as well as to prevent the demoralization of his associates.
Temporary suspension, or even expulsion from school, has often proved more effectual than personal chastisement. The indolent, vicious, or obscene youth, who despises authority, cannot be expected to develop, unchecked, into a useful, law- abiding citizen. The necessity for exertion is as essential to the intellectual as the physical growth. As the child needs to "" sharpen his wits" by reasoning out things for himself, the most successful teachers are those who help the pupil to help himself.
Our sympathies are with the dull scholar, who needs "line upon line, precept upon precept," to aid his slow development, which is often so sure, that in the maturity of his riper years he becomes the leader of the precocious companions of his youth.
The best good of the rising generation can only be secured by adding to intellectual education that inculcation of moral principles, with that respect for the rights of others, and obedi- ence to law, which is summed up in the Statute law as " good behavior."
As has been before said, our schools are not perfect, neither are our teachers faultless. Proper opportunities for speaking of their faults are faithfully improved.
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PARENTAL VISITATION.
In no respect have the schools of this town stood higher than in the number of visits from parents and friends, whose hearty co-operation will do much to secure their ultimate success. We would urge its continuance and increase. Much closer supervision is usually given to matters of less vital importance. Could parents sometimes witness the deportment of their chil- dren, indignation at the teacher would be changed to sympathy for her.
We think our schools are often underrated, and we have no sympathy with those who are ready to proclaim their inef- ficiency and inferiority to the schools of the larger towns and cities possessing all the " modern improvements." We do not find that scholars coming from such schools rank above ours, often below them, and we see no reason why any regular at- tendant of our schools, of average ability, with a desire for knowledge, could not fit himself or herself to enter with credit the higher institutions of learning, or the business walks of life. For years there have been going out from them those who have maintained honorable positions at Salem Normal and Chaancy Hall schools, the Institute of Technology, Boston and Harvard Universities, with kindred institutions.
The cordiality of feeling generally existing between parents, teachers, and committee is gratifying. The education and ele- vation of the rising generation is the object of us all, and requires our united efforts. Union of effort demands that mutual for- bearance which is essential to harmony in all the relations of life. All are human, and Jiable to errors of judgment and prac- tice. That parents make great mistakes, no one who has watched the training of his neighbor's children can for a moment doubt ; and that teachers are equally human, is clear to most
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parents, while doubtless parents and teachers are alike scepti- cal as to the infallibility of committees.
We are in no danger of overestimating the importance of our free public schools. New England acknowledges with pride her indebtednese to her schools and her churches for her present position, and on them largely depends the perpetuity of her institutions.
For the committee,
M. P. SWEETSER,
Secretary.
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STATISTICS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF SAUGUS FOR 1880-1881.
Number of Ward.
GRADE OF SCHOOLS.
NAME OF TEACHER.
Whole No. belonging to
Whole No. belonging to
Whole No. belonging to
to Spring Term. Average No. belonging
to Winter Term. Average No. belonging
Av. Weekly Attendance
Spring Term.
Fall Term.
in the Year.
Years of Age.
each School.
each School.
School in the Year. No. of Visits to each
No. of Visits by the
Committee in the Year.
absent in each School. Total No. times Scholars
Times absent on account
No. of times tardy.
whole Av. Attendance. Per cent of Tardiness of
of Teachers,
Term, per
Wages of Teachers, Fall
and Winter Terms.
High School . -
Mr. C. H. Smart, Principal, } Miss C. J. Calley, Assistant, S
32
41
42
32
41
41
31
40
38
97
20
17
24
60
19
421
356
64
4-5 3
$72 00 36 00
$80 00 38 00
1
Mixed .
-
Miss Hattie G. Andrews .. . Miss M. L. Walton .. ·
27
30
28
24
27
24
21
25
26
95
0
12
16
28
11
721
238
108
1 1-7
32 00
34 00
2
Sub-Primary ..
Miss Addie A. Jackson ...
54
37
48
40
33
41
40
30
93
0
23
22
70
19
1,684
775
225
1 2-3
26 00
28 00
2
Primary
Miss Georgiana Walton ...
46
41
43
35
34
33
34
32
31
94
0
19
24
47
14
1,850
839
108
11-7
32 00
34 00
2
Intermediate .
Miss Esther A. Parker .... 37
42
42
31
38
38
30
35
35
93
1
23
17
27
11
1,319
964
119
1 34 00
36 00
2
Grammar .
Mrs. E. W. Boardman ..... 30
41
39
27
34
35
25
33
32
94
5
17
00
34
15
1,457
664
166
1 8-10
36 00
38 00
3
Primary
Miss Metta C. Orr ... 56 ..
50
43
41
43
30
22
22
16
89
0
28
21
103
27
2,262
1,180
256
2 3-4
32 00
34 00
3
Grammar .
Miss Mabel Mansfield .....
32
47
45
27
42
44
24
41
38
93
2
21
20
88
25
1,538
1,012
239
2
36 00
38 00
4
Primary ...
Miss E. A. Mansfield .. ..
43
44
42
39
38
40
37
37
36
93
0
20
21
38
13
597
493
77
3-5
32 00
34 00
4
Intermediate .
Miss Clara C. Farnham .... 31
35
36
30
31
30
29
28
28
03
0
16
18
34
16
666
445
121
1
32 00
34 00
4
Grammar .
.
Mrs. L. F. G. Dunn. ..
30
34
33
30
33
31
27
30
25
87
2
14
18
31
20
1,204
791
48
2-5
36 00
38 00
5
Mixed
Miss Ella P. Payson. 15
16
16
14
16
16
14
15
12
86
0
12
2
3
12
527
124
130
112
30 00
32 00
Spring Term.
Fall Term.
Winter Term.
to Fall Term. Average No. belonging
Av. Weekly Attendance
Winter Term. Av. Weekly Attendance
Per cent of Attendance
No. of Scholars over 15
Av. No. of Males in
Av. No. of Females in
of sickness.
Wages
Spring
Month.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
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REGULAR COURSE OF STUDY AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.
JUNIOR CLASS.
The Fall Term, 1880. - Arithmetic, United States History, Grammar, Physical Geography, Reading, and Latin.1
Winter Term, 1880-81. - Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Gram- mar, Physical Geography, Reading, and Latin.1
Spring Term, 1881. - Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Analysis, Bookkeeping, Reading, Exercises in English Composition, and Latin.1
MIDDLE CLASS.
Fall Term, 1880. - Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Bookkeeping, French or Latin.
Winter Term, 1880-81. - Geometry, Chemistry, Physiology, Gen- eral History, French or Latin.
Spring Term, 1881 .- Geometry, Chemistry, General History, French or Latin.
SENIOR CLASS.
Full Term, 1880. - Geology, Geometry, General History, Rhet- oric, French or Latin.
Winter Term, 1880-81. - English Literature, Geology, Botany, Astronomy, Rhetoric, French or Latin.
Spring Term, 1881. - English Literature, Botany, Nordhoff's " Politics for Young Americans," French or Latin, and Exercises in English Composition.
General Exercises during the Year. - Spelling, Letter-writing, Drawing, Writing, Declamations, and Compositions.
1Elective.
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LIST OF TEXT-BOOKS USED AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.
CLASSIFIED.
JUNIOR CLASS. - Greenleaf's Arithmetic, Anderson's History of the United States, Greene's Grammar, Warren's Physical Geog- raphy, Munroe's Sixth Reader, Greenleaf's Algebra, Steele's Nat- ural Philosophy, Mayhew's Bookkeeping, Smith's Drawing-book, No. 5, Payson, Dunton, & Scribner's Writing, Westlake's Letter- writer, Harkness's Latin Grammar, and Reader.
MIDDLE CLASS. - Greenleaf's Algebra, Steele's Natural Philos- ophy, Dalton's Physiology, Mayhew's Bookkeeping, Otto's French, and De Fiva's Elementary French Reader, Bradbury's Geometry, Steele's Chemistry, Anderson's General History, Smith's Drawing- books, Nos. 5 and 6, Payson, Dunton & Scribner's Writing, West- lake's Letter-writter, Harkness's Latin Grammar and Reader.
SENIOR CLASS. - Dana's Geologic Story, Anderson's General History, Hart's Rhetoric, Otto's French, De Fiva's Elementary French Reader, Conscrit de 1813, and Bradbury's Geometry, Col- lier's English Literature, Wood's Botany, Steele's Astronomy, Nord- hoff's " Politics for Young Americans," Smith's Drawing-book, No. 6, Payson, Dunton & Scribner's Writing-book, No. 10, Westlake's Letter-writer, Harkness's Latin Grammar, and Harkness's Cæsar.
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ROLL OF HONOR.
WARD ONE.
NOT ABSENT.
Allen L. Eaton, Esther J. Eaton.
ABSENT ON ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS.
Anna M. Butterfield, Clara H. Coburn,
Frank H. Coburn,
Corinne A. Coburn, Madge A. Coburn, Sidney M. Eaton.
WARD TWO. Sub-Primary. ABSENT ONLY ON ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS. Thomas Westwood.
NOT TARDY.
George Cash,
Amy Francois, Eddie Kirtman,
Charlie Lockwood,
Mary Mead, Thomas Westwood,
Lottie Lytton, John McGilvray,
Hannah Lytton, George Robinson.
Primary.
NOT ABSENT.
Johnnie Hitchings,
Ida Perkins.
ABSENT ON ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS.
Bertie Barton,
Lawrence Biffin,
Alice Cowdry, Nellie Parsons,
Gertie Cook, Archie Cheever, George Hull,
Nellie Robinson,
Mary Matthews, Frankie Newhall, Gertie Nourse.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
NOT TARDY.
Lawrence Biffin,
Archie Cheever,
Alice Cowdry,
Bertha Mansfield,
Lizzie Dalton,
Johnnie Meade,
Nellie Parsons,
Frankie Newhall, Gracie Paul, Ida Perkins,
Nellie Robinson, Carrie Waldron.
Intermediate.
NOT ABSENT.
Annie M. Biffin,
Frank M. Ramsdell.
ABSENT ON ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS.
Emma Barton,
Arthur F. Jenkins, Arthur Waldron,
Mary L. Berrett,
James E. Foster,
George Kelly, Leila C. Weekes, Alvan Parker, Percy Wilson.
Jennie Fraser,
Winslow A. Parsons,
NOT TARDY.
Annie M. Biffin, Hattie Coates,
Mary Dalton,
Arthur F. Jenkins,
Leila C. Weekes,
Alvah Parker, Walter Wiley.
Emma F. Roots,
Grammar.
NOT ABSENT.
Sarah Biffin,
Olive Norwood.
ABSENT ON ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS.
Arthur Berrett,
Bertie Hitchings,
Charles Davis,
George Jenkins,
Ida Hitchings,
Arthur Jones,
Etta Wilson,
Annie Hitchings,
George Johnson,
Joseph Spinney, Mamie Stocker,
Fred. Waldron.
Clinton Hill,
Cora Wiley,
Vergnies Learoyd, Addie Learoyd,
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NOT TARDY.
Sarah Biffin,
Etta Mansfield,
Mamie Stocker,
Annie Hitchings,
Olive Norwood,
Etta Wilson,
Charles Wilson,
Fred. Waldron.
WARD THREE.
Primary.
ABSENT ONLY ON ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS.
George A. Sweetser,
Willie J. Sweetser.
NOT TARDY DURING THE YEAR.
Mary R. Cunningham, Charlie F. Raddin,
Allen M. Stocker,
George A. Sweetser,
Willie J. Sweetser.
J. Arthur Raddin,
Grammar.
NOT ABSENT.
Nellie Houghton.
ABSENT ON ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS.
Nellie Albee,
Arthur Florence, Harry Irving,
Clara Bryer,
Nettie Florence, Eddie Kent,
Bertha Copp,
Minnie Hosford, Lizzie Pinkham.
Irving Danforth,
Maud Irving,
NOT TARDY.
Eliza Danforth,
Irving Danforth,
Harry Irving,
Maud Irving,
Isaac Merrithew,
Chester Waitt.
Minnie Proctor,
Annie Waitt,
Ida Hitchings, Arthur Jones,
Julia Paul,
Frank Price,
Relief Moulton,
Clara Danforth, Jennie B. Raddin,
Frank W. Foss, Mary E. Somes,
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
WARD FOUR. Primary.
ABSENT ONLY ON ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS.
Flora Ames,
Harry Deshon,
Willie Savage,
Sarah Ames,
Hattie Kenny,
Maggie Sullivan,
Eugene Brown,
Josie Nourse,
Emma Stocker,
Harry K. Dunn,
Albert Oliver,
Herbert Withey.
Maggie Duncan,
James Scollan,
NOT TARDY.
Addie Brown,
Hattie Kenny,
Willie Savage,
Eugene Brown,
Kate Killian,
James Scollan,
Harry Deshon,
Gertrude Lovering,
Maggie Sullivan, Emma Stocker,
Maggie Duncan,
Albert Oliver,
Florence Stewart,
Cora Graves,
Hermon Oliver,
Edward Trofethen.
Annie Hyde,
Bennie Oliver,
Intermediate.
NOT ABSENT.
Alice M. Maxfield.
ABSENT ON ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS.
Henry M. Brown,
Eva P. Brown,
Lizzie J. Brown, Winfield H. Butler, Lena J. Deshon,
Willie D. Johnson, Herbert E. Howlett, Etta C. Lockwood,
Ina M. Oliver,
Amelia B. Powell,
Henry C. Pearson, Jessie H. Stocker, Jessie M. Scott,
George F. Scollin, Eda M. Waldron.
Lizzie J. Brown, Henry M. Brown, Lena J. Deshon, Mary Hickey, Jeremiah Hyde,
NOT TARDY. Gussie M. Kinney, Emma M. Mansfield, Ina M. Oliver, Jessie M. Scott, Jessie H. Stocker,
Nellie M. Sullivan, Laura E. Tewksbury, Eda M. Waldron, Louise E. Waitt.
Harry Dunn,
Josie Nourse,
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Charles A. Boyce, Herbert E. Howlett, Amy P. Nourse,
TARDY BUT ONCE.
Amelia B. Powell, Lewis O. Stocker,
Charles A. Quimby, Mabel A. Townsend.
WARD FOUR.
Grammar.
NOT ABSENT.
George E. Maxfield, Hannah M. Oliver.
ABSENT ON ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS.
Harry G. Butler, Ada L. Oliver, Alice M. Philbrook.
Ernest L. Butler, Maud Oliver,
NOT TARDY.
Harry G. Butler, Josie C. Hill,
H. Wheelock Brown,
Arthur D. Keyes,
B. Frank Calley,
Fannie B. Libbey,
George E. Maxfield,
Eda M. Pearson.
WARD FIVE.
NOT ABSENT. Ellis L. Edmands.
ABSENT ON ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS. Fred. H. Carnes.
TARDY TWICE DURING THE TERM.
Ellis L. Edmands, Fred. H. Carnes.
Fred. M. Philbrick,
J. Albert Farnham, Rosa J. Gallagher, Flora R. Moore,
Nettie M. Newhall, Ada L. Oliver,
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
OF THE
TOWN OF SAUGUS,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEB. 28, 1883.
TOGETHER WITH
THE REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
BOSTON : PRESS OF ROCKWELL AND CHURCHILL. No. 39 ARCH STREET. 1883.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
OF THE
TOWN OF SAUGUS,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEB. 28, 1883.
TOGETHER WITH
THE REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
L
BOSTON : PRESS OF ROCKWELL AND CHURCHILL, No. 39 ARCH STREET. 1883.
AUDITORS' REPORT.
THE Auditors have examined the accounts and vouchers of the several Boards of Town Officers, and herewith submit their report. We find an apparent slight decrease in the Deficiency, but not as large as it should be with an increase of two thousand dollars in the Sinking Fund. We again recommend the utmost economy in all departments. We would call the attention of the town to the large amount of uncollected taxes, and recommend that some means be adopted to collect them in more closely. Some of our neighboring towns have the entire tax paid over to the Treasurer before the day of settlement. The estimates for the several de- partments are not in excess of the expenditures the past year, and meet our approval.
WILLIAM F. HITCHINGS, ALBERT H. SWEETSER, HORACE H. ATHERTON, Auditors.
SELECTMEN'S DEPARTMENT.
FOR SCHOOLS.
Paid M. L. Walton .
$314 50
W. F. Gillette
.
.
758 78
L. I. M. Butterfield
133 00
Susan P. Burnham .
228 00
E. W. Boardman
361 00
E. A. Parker .
333 00
G. A. Walton
314 50
A. A. Jackson
289 50
M. C. Mansfield
351 50
M. C. Orr
314 50
Mary D. Davis
209 00
L. F. G. Dunn
259 00
E. A. Mansfield
314 50
C. C. Farnham
314 50
A. D. Moulton
64 00
Ella P. Payson
104 00
Carrie E. Carnes
168 00
Incidental expenses
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