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Respectfully submitted,
C. E. STEVENS, Superintendent.
TABLE No. 1. Giving Grades of Schools, Names of Present Teachers, Year of Election, and Annual Salary.
WRD.
GRADE.
TEACHERS.
Year of Elect.
SALARIES.
High School.
F. E. Emrich, Jr. .
1894
$1,100
Grace L. Putnam
1895
450
Helen L. Bacheller
1895
450
I
North Saugus. Mixed
M. A. Plummer
1895
360
Centre.
viii, ix
Annie L. Ricker
1895
420
vi, vii
Esther A. Parker
1863
420
iv, v .
Gertrude W. Groce
1894
380
ii, iii
G. A. Walton
1873
380
i .
M. L. Walton
1885
380
3
Cliftondale.
viii, ix .
Fanny E. Jennison
1891
420
vii, viii
Alice E. Chase
1895
420
vi
D. A. Dunn
1892
380
iv, v
Eva C. Jenkins
1892
380
iii, iv
Agnes S. Ord
1895
380
ii
Edith Sandsbury
1894
360
i .
Clara Trowbridge
1892
36
Essex St.
iv, v
M. E. Smith
1892
380
i, ii, iii .
Laura F. Armitage
1885
360
4
East Saugus.
vii, viii, ix .
Grace R. Neeley
1894
420
iv, v, vi
Carrie A. Barber
1895
380
i, ii, iii . .
E. A. Mansfield
1851
38c
Oaklandvale.
Mixed
Hariot Sanborn
1895
360
Music .
Helen M. Page .
1895
300
2
5
TABLE No. 2.
TEACHER.
Enrollment.
Boys.
Girls.
Less than 5.
Over 15.
Between 8
Winter.
Spring.
Fall.
Winter.
Spring.
Fall.
Attendance.
Tardiness.
Dismissals.
Visitors.
F. E. Emrich, Jr. .
.
54
18
36
O
54
O
48.9
46
60.2
45.8
43.8
57.3
94.8
· 42
88
70
Annie L. Ricker .
·
39
17
22
O
4
22
36.6
35.8
38.2
33.7
33.1
36
92.9
72
17
40
Esther A. Parker .
47
21
26
O
0
46
41.2
40.7
43.9
37
38.9
41.7
93.5
16
30
35
Gertrude W. Groce
47
19
28
O
0
46
35.2
35.8
47.9
33
33.3
44.7
94.2
38
44
38
G. A. Walton .
60
26
34
O
o
48
51
55
54
44.I
52
51
90.2
35
22
30
M. L. Walton
88
36
52
O
0
13
54.3
47.7
54.9
49.3
44
49.7
90.2
27
24
66
Fannie E. Jennison .
33
16
17
O
13
II
26.8
27.5
38.2
25.5
26.2
36.3
95.I
67
49
55
Alice E. Chase
37
14
23
4
20
32.5
35
37. I
29.6
32.1
32.5
90
44
26
47
D. A. Dunn
35
17
18
0
29
33.9
32.I
29.9
31.3
29.3
27.6
92
50
45
48
Eva C. Jenkins
60
29
31
0
60
41.7
37.3
34.3
37.8
33.4
31.9
91
37
21
IIO
Agnes S. Ord .
I
0
I
O
I
46
44.6
44.2
41.I
37.5
41.I
88.8
79
38
60
Edith M. Sandsbury Clara Trowbridge ·
82
47
35
O
6
43.6
39.2
38.I
36.2
30.3
33.1
82.3
138
17
49
M. E. Smith .
42
19
23ª
0
36
24.8
25.7
26.2
22
23.3
23.9
90
82
38
38
Laura F. Armitage .
65
39
26
o
12
41.6
42.8
43.8
36.8
40
39.I
90.4
103
20
40
Grace R. Neeley .
29
12
17
O
3
1 7
27.2
26.6
34.2
25.8
24.2
32.5
94
27
53
37
Carrie A. Barber
38
19
19
O
I
36
36.7
36.2
40
35
35.1
38.6
95
21
27
35
Eliza A. Mansfield
·
70
33
37
O
0
18
54.2
50.4
50
49.6
47.8
46.9
93.1
36
IO
40
Marion E. Conn . .
44
20
24
0
18
28.9
26
31.7
26
23.4
27.7
90
138
47
26
Hariot C. Sanborn
.
26
15
II
0
17
15
19
20
13.3
17
18
90
180
1 5
20
.
.
.
·
·
63
39
24
0
43
39.2
36
92
9
5
8
·
.
·
0 ol
and 14.
AVERAGE MEMBERSHIP.
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE.
Per cent of
SUMMARY.
Number of children in town, May 1, 1895, from five to fifteen years of age 800
Number between five (5) and eight (8) . 262
Number between eight (8) and fourteen (14) . 468
Whole number enrolled in all schools 960
Number of boys
456
Number of girls
504
Number under five (5)
O
Number over fifteen (15)
79
Number between eight (8) and fourteen (14)
499
Average membership for the year . 743.I
Average membership for the Winter Term . 720.I
Average membership for the Spring Term · 703.4
Average membership for the Fall Term . . 806.
Average attendance for the year . 681.I
Average attendance for the Winter Term . 652.9
Average attendance for the Spring Term
. 644.7
Average attendance for the Fall Term . 745.6
Per cent of attendance .91.6+
Number of puils who have moved into town .
I33
Number of pupils who have moved out of town 80
Number of teachers employed 23
Increase during the year
2
Number of different schools 20
Increase during the year
I
Number of tardinesses 1,24I
Decrease from last year .
188
Number of visits, not including those of Committee and Superintendent 892
GRADUATING EXERCISES
OF THE
CLASS OF '95, SAUGUS HIGH SCHOOL. TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1895.
PROGRAMME.
Music, "Spring Song"
.
.
Veasie
Public School Chorus.
Prayer
Music, "The Lord is My Shepherd"
.
Lincoln
High School Chorus.
Salutatory
.
Mary E. Sullivan.
Music, "Evening Bells"
Pease
High School Chorus.
Address
Benjamin N. Johnson.
Music, "The Red Scarf"
.
Veazic
Public School Chorus.
Valedictory
V. Alice Porter.
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS.
Music, "Anchored
Veazie High School Chorus. BENEDICTION.
2I
HIGH SCHOOL.
GRADUATES.
Three Years' Course.
Grace Ellen McNutt,
Victoria Alice Porter, Mary Elizabeth Sullivan. Two Years' Course.
Grace Rogers Bailey, Miriam Barrar, George Sabin Briggs, Adeline Clapp Erskine, Edith Bernice Gates, Mary Richardson Gates,
Lilla Gertrude Parker, Ella Louise Pratt, Walter James Scollin, Lina Shirley, Ada May Stevens, Cora Francis Wilson.
BOND PRIZE RECITATIONS. Thursday Evening, June 27, 1895.
PROGRAMME.
1. Piano Solo, "Nocturne X, Op. 32" . Chopin Mrs. Katherine Forristall.
2. "How Bell Caught the Burglar" Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney Edith M. Florence.
3. "Execution of Montrose" Ernest W. Homan.
4. "The Father of the Revolution" George William Curtis William W. Winchester.
5. Solo Miss Maud Ries.
6. "The Fate of Virginia"
Alberta M. Chadwick.
7. "Dandy Fifth" G. Sabin Briggs.
' 8. "For a' That, or Selling a Feller" Mariette Holley Margaret W. Small.
9. "The Bell of Zenova" Grace R. Bailey.
IO. Solo
Miss Maud Ries.
II. "A Modern Elijah" E. S. Phelps Ward Mamie L. McTague.
12. "Speech of Regulus to the Carthaginians" George M. Amerige.
13. "The Schoolmaster's Guests" Will Carleton
Adeline C. Erskine.
14. Award of prizes First prize was awarded to Adeline C. Erskine. Second prize to G. Sabin Briggs. Third prize to Margaret W. Small.
Bond prizes for "improvement" were awarded as follows: Senior class, Walter J. Scollin ; other classes, Ernest W. Homan.
CERTIFICATES.
No child under sixteen years of age can lawfully be em- ployed in any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment unless his employer keeps on file his employment ticket and certificate. To obtain the certificate the person intending to employ the child must fill out the prescribed employment ticket. Blanks may be procured of the Superintendent. After obtaining the employment ticket, properly filled out, the child, accompanied by his father, if a resident of the town; if not, by his mother or legal guardian, may obtain a certificate from the Superintendent of Schools.
For the benefit of those interested a brief statement of the laws concerning the employment of children is here given.
I. No child under thirteen years of age can be employed in any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment.
2. No child under thirteen years old can be employed for wages, in any indoor work, during public school hours; nor in any other manner (as without wages or out of doors) during school hours, unless said child has attended school thirty weeks during the preceding year.
3. No child under fourteen years of age can be employed before six o'clock in the morning, nor after seven in the evening.
4. No child under fourteen years of age can be employed in any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment except during vacations, unless the employer keeps on file a certificate of age and schooling, and an employment ticket, nor can any child under fourteen years be employed in any indoor work for wages, during school hours, unless he has attended school at least thirty weeks during the year next preceding.
5. The Age and School Certificate belongs to the minor employed, and must be surrendered to him or her when he or she leaves the service of the employer.
EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC STATUTES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
CHAPTER 47.
CONCERNING VACCINATION.
Section 9. The School Committee shall not allow a child who has not been duly vaccinated to be admitted to or con- nected with the public schools.
CHAPTER 515, ACTS OF 1894. AN ACT RELATIVE TO VACCINATION.
Section 1. Parents and guardians shall cause their children and wards to be duly vaccinated before they attain the age of two years, except as provided in section two of this act. For every year's neglect the party offending shall forfeit the sum of five dollars.
Section 2. All children who shall present a certificate signed by a regular practicing physician that they are unfit subjects for vaccination shall not be subject to the provisions of section nine of chapter forty-seven of the Public Statutes excluding unvaccinated children from the public schools, and all children upon such a certificate shall be exempted from the provisions of this act, and the parents and guardians of such children shall not be liable to the penalties imposed by section one of this act.
CHAPTER 198. 1
AN ACT TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASE THROUGH PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
The School Committee shall not allow any pupil to attend the public schools while any member of the household to which the pupil belongs is sick of small-pox, diphtheria or scarlet fever, or during a period of two weeks after death, recovery or removal of such sick person; and any pupil coming from such household shall be required to present to the teacher of the school the pupil desires to attend a certificate from the attend- ing physician or board of health, of the facts necessary to entitle him to admission in accordance with the above regulation.
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EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC STATUTES.
CHAPTER 203.
CONCERNING INJURY TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Whoever willfully and maliciously or wantonly and without cause, destroys, defaces, mars, or injures a schoolhouse, church or other building erected or used for purposes of education or religious instruction, or for the general diffusion of knowledge, or an out-building, fence, well or appurtenance of such school- house, church or other building, of furniture, apparatus or other property belonging to or connected with such schoolhouse. church or other building, shall be punished by fine not exceed- ing five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one year.
CHAPTER 498, ACTS OF 1894.
AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE ATTENDANCE OF CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOLS.
Section 1. Every person having under his control a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years, and in every city and town where opportunity is furnished, in connection with the regular work of the public schools, for gratuitous instruc- tion in the use of tools or in manual training, or for industrial education in any form, a child between the ages of eight and fifteen years, shall annually cause such child to attend some public day school in the city or town in which he resides, and such attendance shall continue for at least thirty weeks of the school year, if the schools are kept open for that length of time, with an allowance of two weeks' time for absences not excused by the superintendent of schools or the school committee. Such period of attendance shall begin within the first month of the fall term of school, and for each five days' absence of any such child thereafter, in excess of the above allowance, before the completion of the required annual attendance of thirty weeks, the person having such child under his control shall, upon the complaint of the school committee or any truant officer, forfeit to the use of the public schools of such city or town a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, but if such child has attended for a like period of time a private day school approved by the school committee of such city or town, or if such child
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EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC STATUTES.
has been otherwise instructed for a like period of time in the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools, or has already required the branches of learning re- quired by law to be taught in the public schools, or if his physical or mental condition is such as to render such attend- ance inexpedient or impracticable, such penalties shall not be incurred.
CHAPTER 508, ACTS OF 1894.
SANITARY PROVISIONS AND PROPER VENTILATION.
Section 40. Every public building and every schoolhouse shall be kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or other nuisance, and shall be provided with a sufficient number of proper water closets, earth closets or privies for the reasonable use of the persons admitted to such public building or of the pupils attending such school- house.
Section 41. Every public building and every schoolhouse shall be ventilated in such a proper manner that the air shall not become so exhausted as to be injurious to the health of the persons present therein. The provisions of this section and the preceding section shall be enforced by the inspection de- partment of the district police.
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