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ful and endless labors of the teachers for the children, condem nation is very rare. Heresay evidence is not more just out of court than in it. Occasionally a mother visits the school of her children, a father hardly ever, mutual acquaintance between parents and teachers can work only for good, who would entrust the training of his dog or horse to a trainer he never saw, or whom he would pass on the street without greeting. This lack of personal contact of parents and teachers may be due to an ex- alted idea of the teacher's virtues and abilities. The parents may think that the teachers are so extremely competent that they need no co-operation from the home, this would seem almost true of some, judging from the requests received when a boy throws snowballs, tramples over his neighbor's premises, injures his neighbor's property or uses discourteous language in public, the teacher is asked to correct these errors. Such high esteem for the teacher's influence is rather flattering than helpful.
The rules of your Board require a written note from home for each case of absence, tardiness or dismissal, but too frequently such note is neglected or even refused. A little thought on the part of any one would seem all that is necessary to show the need of such requirement. Too often a case of truancy is possible by just such neglect, though as a whole the schools have had few cases of real truancy. More frequent have been the times when pupils have been kept from school to help in family duties or to run errands. Such absences hurt not only the absent pupils, but hinder the work of the rest of the class, for where any fail to do the work, there the whole class has failed. The pupils that fail of promotion are most often those who have been often absent, and too much of such absence is the parent's fault. It is not asking too much to ask all parents to avoid every unnecessary absence of their children. Besides, the law puts a penalty on more than five days absence in six months.
The same teachers are in our schools as last year, with the addition of one in the High School, needed by the growth of the school and by the appointment of the principal as superintendent. Two years ago, a request was made for a Commercial Depart- ment in the High School, which did not seem best at that time.
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But under your direction, the principal began an experiment of giving lessons in shorthand, typewriting and political economy in addition to the bookkeeping already in the school. The demand was so great that a new teacher was needed to do the work in a satisfactory way. After much searching Miss Lucretia E. Berry, of Chelsea, was secured. Miss Berry is a graduate of Boston University and of the Hickock Commercial School of Boston, and was in charge of the business work in the North Attleboro High School. She has proved a strong addition to our corps of teachers, both in power to teach and to control.
Miss Bassett of the Pine street school, who has been doing so well in her first work as teacher, was forced by ill health, at the beginning of this winter, to ask for leave of absence. This was granted and Mrs. E. Jennie Owen was appointed substitute till Miss Bassett's recovery and return. Much as those who have never tried it may say as to the short hours and easy work of the teacher, it remains a fact that those who know, find it wearing and nerve exhausting work. When mothers are often glad " to get rid " of their two or three children by sending them to school, it seems strange that any should expect the teacher, with forty or fifty children, to instil into them all the virtues, and never have any trouble or weariness.
A teacher who proves successful is more desirable if her home is in town, but is not necessarily successful because her home is here. A " professional " teacher will prove her ability some- where, if there be no chance at home, and of course it is the proved teacher that the citizens need for their children. When a teacher can say to your board, "I am a teacher in such a school. Come and see my good work," she is worth much more than one who only wants to be a teacher and live at home. A town teacher is always better, other things being equal, but not necessarily better when other things are not equal. " Keeping the money in town " is not wise, if the service rendered is not so good as demanded.
The accommodations for schools are fast becoming inadequate. When the Phillips building was built and the Redington street building abandoned for the upper grades, most of the citizens felt
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that provision had been made for many years. But two schools have been crowded back to Redington street from the Phillips, and another must leave the hill next September. Where shall it go? The fourth, fifth and sixth grades have now two rooms each and next fall two seventh grade rooms will be needed. Our eighth grade teacher asks to be changed to the new seventh when it is formed. If we are to get a new eighth grade teacher, it would seem best to get a man who would be principal of the grammar school and have charge of the premises when the super- intendent is elsewhere. Another man among our teachers is desirable. Children can go through our schools and come under the instruction of women only, except in a few classes in the High School. This is not well.
Men are not better teachers than women but are different, and girls and boys, alike, need the influence of man and woman in the home and also in the school. It is in that respect that American schools differ so much from the famous German schools. In Germany the proportion of men teachers is very much greater.
In the High School there is a constant growth as the enrollment on the last page shows. When the present quarters were first taken, the number of pupils was forty-seven and teachers two. Now the pupils number ninty-one, the teachers five. Should the number next fall increase as much as last fall it will be unwise if not unsafe to try to force them all into the two rooms now used The room formerly called the library has been fitted for a book- keeping and typewriting room but is too small. Soon the town will be forced to build either a new high school or a new gram- mar school, and the time to plan for such need is the present. Such planing should be wise enough to provide for ten years' needs at least. It is not wise economy to build so small that more will be needed by the growth of the town even before the building bonds have been paid. Immediate relief may be gained by enlarging the Essex street building to four rooms, removing a fourth grade from Redington street to that building and removing the fifth grades from the Phillips to Redington street. But this will not provide for the needs of the High School and will be only a temporary relief at best.
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With the formation of two rooms in each grade the attempt has been made to divide those grades into an upper and a lower. This allows pupils to go on in their work at a pace better suited to them than is allowed by the annual grading as but five months will finally separate the grades instead of the whole year of ten months. The plan has not been working long enough to enable a definite judgment to be passed.
A change in arithmetics was recently made which has annoyed some parents, because the books are so different from those they were familiar with when they went to school. These new books seem an improvement over the old and when all become more familiar with the principle on which they are written, the criticism will disappear. These books require the pupil to think, one of the most longed for accomplishments, though too many wish the teacher or the book to do the thinking. The method pursued is such that if a boy is forced to leave school early, he has had a chance to learn the simpler parts of what was formerly saved for the upper grades and was "in the back of the book."
Some talk has been made against home lessons, much of it without real knowledge of the conditions. No home lessons are required in the first six grades but many scholars beg to take work home and many seem to need to do so to keep them busy. Some parents wish their children to bring books home and some do not. Who is right?
When children carry home dire tales of evil and wrong, too often, their honesty of purpose is thought to ensure accuracy of statement. Yet we all know it is difficult for adults and even newspapers to tell a story straight. Inquiry often shows that there are two sides to every question and a fair judge gives credit for honesty on both sides. It is a great comfort to find so many parents who appreciate the difficulty of handling forty or fifty children from totally different homes and with such a variety of dispositions and abilities. Each child needs a treatment different from that needed by every other.
One thing that calls for thought and action on the part of officers and citizens is the furnishing of cigarettes to boys under
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age. Too many of the boys are using these deadening doses of poison. Complaints have reached the teachers of this and almost any one can see for himself that many boys are using cigarettes. Those dealers that sell them to the boys know they are violating the law and should be made to suffer for it. It does not seem the part of the teachers to seek the evidence to convict, though they would be willing to tell what little they know. It is the universal testimony that those boys and young men who are habitual users of cigarettes do not take high rank in school or college. Some of the boys have joined an Anti-Cigarette League and should be helped in their efforts to stop the evil.
In these days of bacteria it is a source of regret that so many children come to school, even to the lowest primary grades, with that unhygienic habit already formed, of putting lead pencils in their mouths. It seems well nigh impossible to root it out. Certainly it is not health giving for any one to invite contagion, as of diphtheria, by that habit, and the children ought not to learn that habit at home or anywhere else.
It seems hardly appropriate that the main school-house of the town should be on a private road, over which the town has not full control. This last fall that road was dug up for some weeks, blocking both entrances to the school yard, much to the annoyance of all and risk to the smaller children. It has been left in an undesirable condition.
One great failing of much of our modern schooling is in the di- rection of proper physical training, means should be taken to train the bodies of the children as well as their minds for a good body is essential to the best mental work. At the critical period from twelve to eighteen the body seems at times to be more important than the rest of the child, children who before have been well and strong often begin to show signs of weakness, perhaps inherited, that finally leaves them in a permanently weakened con- dition. This trouble is wrongly charged to the school, but the school ought to do something to prevent or cure such cases as it can reach, a good educational gymnasiun with a physical director is as desirable as a chemical laboratory or an assembly hall, and would be of more benefit to a far greater number. Swampscott cannot afford to neglect this vital matter longer.
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The teachers have had a few lessons in Sweedish gymnastics this last fall by a graduate of the School of Expression of Boston, Miss Gertrude S. Whall, and they are trying to do what they can in their own classes. But they feel that it is too little to do very much permanent good.
Teachers' meetings have also been held to discuss methods of teaching and other interests of the schools. A class in education has been formed by about half the teachers to study together some good educational book. A while ago the class studied Compayre's " History of Pedagogy," this winter it is taking up Rosenkranz's " Philosophy of Education." Anybody interested in such study is welcome to the class. Our best teachers are al- ways most ready to undertake such professional work and really need it the least. Teaching is not a profession and cannot be un- til all who hold the position of teacher are really professional in spirit as docters and lawyers have always been. The demand to- day is for those who really "educate" not simply keep "school ;" any strong person can do the latter, not every one the former.
High School.
The High School graduated a class of ten last June. One boy entered Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, with- out conditions, a second entered Worcester Polytechnic School, a third entered the Salem Commercial. School, being compelled by weakness of eyes to give up, he went to work in a Lynn store, but pneumonia forced him to leave. The fourth is living at home. Of the girls, two returned to the school for additional study, one since leaving to give her attention to music, and the other doing bookeeping work in addition to her school work. A third is at work in a Lynn store, a fourth is in Salem Commercial School, and the two others are at home.
The work of preparing for college is always earnest work and is often a severe tax on a pupil's strength, so that for many it is advised that five years be given to it. Five years is becoming the common time in many schools and saves the health of many a girl, if not a boy as well.
The certificate from the principal of the High School is now accepted for admission by Boston University, Tufts College and
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Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst. No application has been made to other colleges as no pupil has made demand for such certificate.
The usual statistics are appended to this report and will repay examination.
I would here express my thanks to your board for the courte- ous and kindly treatment and help in my work, to the teachers for their ready support and hard work and to the friends of the schools for their sympathy and aid.
I would urge upon all, that the schools can do their best, only when all the town does its part in the work and when everything is tested by the question, "Is it best for the children ?"
Respectfully,
HAROLD C. CHILDS.
FEBRUARY, 1902.
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Course of Study .- Swampscott High School.
First Year Class.
REQUIRED STUDIES.
Per week
English
4 hours
Geometry .
4 hours
English History
3 hours
Declamations
I hour
ELECTIVE STUDIES.
Per week
Latin I 4 hours
French I.
4 hours
Commercial Arithmetic
3 hours
Elementry Physics 3 hours
Drawing
2 hours
Second Year Class.
REQUIRED STUDIES.
ELECTIVE STUDIES.
English
4 hours
Greek I 4 hours
Latin II
4 hours
French II
4 hours
Botany 3 hours
Physical Geography 3 hours
Book-keeping II .
3 hours
Drawing
I hour
Declamations .
I hour
Junior Class.
REQUIRED STUDIES.
ELECTIVE STUDIES.
Greek II 4 hours
Latin I or III 4 hours
French I
4 hours
German I
4 hours
Astronomy
3 hours
Physics 4 hours
Short-hand I
3 hours
Advanced Algebra
3 hours
Drawing
I hour
Declamations
I hour
Algebra
4 hours
Civil Government*
3 hours
English* 3 hours
Ancient History'
3 hours
6
Book-keeping I
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Senior Class.
REQUIRED STUDIES.
English 3 hours
Med. and Mod. History* 3 hours
Economics* 3 hours
ELECTIVE STUDIES.
Chemistry 4 hours
Plain and Solid Geometry 3 hours
Geology
3 hours
Typewritingt .
3 hours
Short-hand II . 3 hours
Foreign Language(con.) 4 hours
Drawing
I hour
Declamations
I hour
*See Note 3.
+With three hours of practice.
Notes
I. Each pupil is required to take all the "Required Studies" and as many hours of "Elective Studies" as will make fifteen hours of prepared lessons per week, making sixty hours in four years. Pupils able and wishing to take more than fifteen hours per week, may do so on approval of the teachers. Pupils who for reasons of health, or for other reasons wish to take less than fifteen hours of work per week, may distribute their work over more than four years, and receive their diplomas when sixty hours of work have been done.
2. The choice of electives must have the approval of the teachers, and no class will be made in any study unless enough pupils elect it. Each foreign language is to be studied at least two years, before another is substituted. Two years of some foreign language is required of each pupil.
3. For pupils preparing for higher schools and colleges, such changes in the course of study as are necessary may be made to meet the requirements for admission to such institutions.
4. Music is required of all pupils, except those excused ¿by Director of Music because of lack of ability.
5. The work in declamations is prepared work, with regular class instruction weekly.
6. Pupils graduating from the school who were unable for any reason to take certain work may return after graduation, and enter any class they may wish, and receive recognition for such work done.
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GRADUATION EXERCISES
OF THE
Swampscott High School
IN THE
PHILLIPS SCHOOL HALL
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 27, 1901 AT 7.45 O'CLOCK. "LABOR OMNIA VINCIT."
OVERTURE
.
" Little Redcap "
Inez M. Bonney.
INVOCATION
Rev. Harold Marshall.
CHORUS .
" The Dawn is Breaking" . School.
DECLAMATION " The True Grandeur of Nations," Sumner Reginald L. Webb.
CHORUS .
" The Lost Chord "
School.
ESSAY
" An American Poet" Mira M. Southworth.
CHORUS .
" Brightly the Morning" School.
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INTERLUDE
" Doris "
Bessie B. Hussey.
PRESENTATION OF CLASS GIFT
Harold H. Bartol.
CHORUS . "Now the Music Soundeth " School.
ADDRESS
Supervisor George H. Martin, Boston.
CHORUS . . "Good Night"
School.
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS.
By Chairman of School Board.
PRESENTATION OF PHILLIPS MEDAL. By Secretary of School Board.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF HONORS.
Won in Swampscott Schools during the year.
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Graduates.
Latin Scientific Course. Mira Morrison Southworth, Reginald Lester Webb.
General Course. Maud Harding Ashton, Emma Laura Brown, Bessie Briggs Hussey, Hattie Maud Johansen, Velma Gertrude Martin, Harold Hurlbert Bartol, Chester Anderson Brown, - Roy Elwood Crane.
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Selected List for 1901.
Pupils Whose Work in Each Study has Averaged Excellent (A) for the Whole Year, Ending June, 1901.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Mira Morrison Southworth.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Roscoe P. Timson, Grade VIII.
Roll of Honor.
Pupils Neither Late Nor Absent for the Entire School Year, End- ing June, 1901.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Jennie W. Cary
Herbert E. Cahoon,
Ethel S. Griffin, Lillian E. Doughty,
Bertram P. Martin.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Mildred R. Munsey, Grade VIII. Isabel O. DeLory, Grade VI.
Bertha Enholm, Grade VII. George T. Poor, Grade V.
Helen A. Cobb, Grade VII. Reuel Metcalf, Grade IV.
Florence Monahan, Grade VII. George Goodwin, Grade IV.
Lloyd L. Mansfield, Grade VI. Marion Proctor, Grade III.
Katherine E. Finnegan, Gr. VI. Harold Spinney, Grade III. Inda A. Webb, Grade VI. Camille S. Serrington, Gr. II. Frank E. Homan, Grade. VI.
Ralph H. Stevens, Grade VII, was absent one day being sum- moned to court as witness.
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Phillips Medals Given to the Pupils of the High School.
For Superior Scholarship during the four years :
Gold Medal-Mira Morrison Southworth.
Honorable Mention - Roy Elwood Crane.
For Excellence in English Composition and Declamation for four years :
Silver Medal - Reginald Lester Webb.
Honorable Mention - Mira M. Southworth.
For Superior Deportment for the year :
Two Silver Medals- Hattie Maud Johansen, Jennie Wins- low Cary.
Medal Reinscribed - Maud H. Ashton.
Calendar for School Year, 1902.
Winter Term began December 30, 1901, ends February 21, 1902.
Spring Term begins March 3; ends April 25.
Summer Term begins May 5 ; ends June 27.
Fall Term begins September 8; ends December 19.
Winter Term begins December 29, 1902 ; ends February 20, 1903.
Children who have not previously attended school may enter the first primary grade at the beginning of the spring term, March 3, or at the beginning of the fall term, September 8.
Holidays.
Washington's Birthday, February 22.
Patriot's Day, April 19.
Memorial Day, May 30.
Bunker Hill Day, June 17.
Thanksgiving recess, from noon of the day before, to morning of Monday following Thanksgiving Day.
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Corps of Teachers, January, 1902.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Harold C. Childs, Principal.
Sept. 1898.
A. Lillian Rideout, Assistant.
Sept. 1893.
Mabel E. Ingalls, Assistant.
Sept. 1894.
Alice G. Coombs, Assistant.
Sept. 1900.
Lucretia E. Berry, Assistant.
Sept. 1901.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS-PHILLIPS.
Ellen M. Dewing, Grade VIII.
Elizabeth J. Hadley, Grade VII.
Minnie H. Fernald, Grade VI.
Mabel S. Knight, Grade VI.
Frances A. Gould, Grade V.
M. Isabelle Hutt, Grade V.
REDINGTON STREET.
Mabel F. Verry, Grade IV, Principal. Caro G. Gradon, Grade IV.
Sept. 1899 .- April 1896. Sept. 1900 .- Sept. 1899
PRIMARY SCHOOLS-REDINGTON STREET.
Edith S. Gardner, Grade III, II. Edith A. Farnum, Grade I.
Sept. 1900 .- Sept. 1894. Sept. 1897.
ESSEX STREET.
Emma J. Machon, Grade II, Principal. May E. Jackson, Grade I.
Apr. 1880. Nov. 1894.
PINE STREET.
Charlotte Bain, Grade III, Principal.
Sept. 1900 .- Sept. 1897.
Ida F. Bassett, Grade I, (on leave of absence) Sept. 1900. E. Jennie Owen, Grade I, (Substitute) Dec. 1901.
BEACH.
Mary A. Phillips, Grade III, II, I.
Sept. 1900.
FARMS.
Louise C. Stanley, Grade III, II, I.
Sept. 1888.
SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC AND DRAWING. Elizabeth A. Bill. Jan. 1890.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
Harold C. Childs. Sept. 1901.
Date of Appointment.
Jan. 1894.
Sept. 1880 .- Dec. 1872.
Sept. 1888.
Sept. 1900 .- Nov. 1894.
Sept. 1888.
Sept. 1894 .- Jan. 1892.
[Date of appointment to present position in Roman type. If the teacher has previously served in another position in town the earliest date of such appointment is stated in italics.]
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School Statistics, 1901.
Largest number of pupils at
Number enrolled, Fall Term,
Average age (years, months).
Winter Term.
Spring Term.
Summer Term.
Fall Term.
Winter Term.
Spring Term.
Summer Term.
Fall Term.
Per cent. of attendance.
HIGH SCHOOLS .
91
91
91
16
72.0 67.2 63.9 87.7 67.3 63.8 60.3 87.2 95.6
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS :
Phillips-Grade VIII .
48
44
45
14
41.0 39.0 38.0 41.6 38.8 36.3 37.2 39.0 94.2
Grade VII
50
50
49
13
43.3 42.I
41.6
49.6
38.7 39.5 39.9
46.9 93,5
Grade VI .
96
S7
81
11-9 56.0
54.0
53.0
So.0 53.8 47.2 47.3
75.0 93.2
Grade V
96
92
92
10-5 76.4 75.0 81.6 85.7 71.5 |70.5
76.4
81.6 93.9
Redington Street-Grade IV .
100
95
98
9-2 74.5 74.0 81.5 90.4 74.4
64.2
77.9
S2.1
89.S
PRIMARY SCHOOLS :
Redington Street-Grade III .
25
23
23
7-9 21.2 21.0 22.0 21.7
19.9 19.7
20.6
20.9 94.4
Grade II
21
23
23
6-10 17.7 18.3
19.1 21.7
16.8 16.2
18.3
20.1 92.6
Grade I .
32
30
21
5-4
21.0 21.8 29-7
16.7 17.5 18.8
27.I
15.4 88.3
Essex Street-Grade II
53
53
54
7-1
46.0
46.5
48.0 52.3 38.8
42.3 45.8 45.6
89.5
Grade I .
46
47
31
5-7 35.0 35-3
46.4
29.3 31.4 32.I
43.3 27.3 91.8
Pine Street-Grade III
51
51
52
S-3
44.0
44.0
45.0
48.0 34.0
39.0 39.0
46.0
87.2
Grade I .
40
3S
28
5-9
26.0
24.0
35.0
26.0 17.9 14.4
2S.9
22.0 75.0
Beach-Grade III .
6
4
8-5
8.0
9.0
9.0
4.0
7.9
8.3 8.5
3.8 95.0
Grade II
45
S
S
6-9
3.0
4.0
4.0
8.0
2.8
2.9
3.6
8.2 92.0
Grade
9
9
6-4
10.0 11.0
14.0
S.2
9.6
9.8 13.9
6.9 93.0
Farms-Grade III
9
9
8-7
6.0
6.0
6.0
9.0
4.0
5.0
5.0
8.0
85.0
Grade II
28
9
S
6-3
9.0
9.0
9.0
7.0
6.0
7.0
S.o
7.0 85.0
Grade I
8
5
5-7
8.0
7.0
8.0
4.0
6.0
6.0
S.o
3.0 85.0
Average Membership.
Average Attendance.
Number of Sittings.
any one time.
1901.
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Enrolment for Fall Term.
HIGH SCHOOL :
1898.
1899.
1900.
1901.
Graduate Students
. .
. .
. .
2
Senior
6
7
IO
13
Junior
9
I7
13
I3
Second Year
24
2I
17
24
First Year
30
34
41
39
Totals
69
79
81
91
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS :
Grade VIII
44
45
45
Grade VII
47
47
49
Grade VI
62
63
81
Grade V
76
82
92
Grade IV
97
85
98
Totals
326
322
365
PRIMARY SCHOOLS :
Grade III .
83
88
88
Grade II
99
86
93
Grade I
106
I18
94
Totals
288
292
275
Grand totals
693
695
731
Increase
2
36
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Report of Truant Officer
To the School Board :
GENTLEMEN,-I have investigated 58 complaints from teachers during the past year, with the following results :
Truancy, first offence, 6; second offence, I; third offence, I ; All others gavé satisfactory reasons for absence.
Respectfully submitted,
RICHARD G. GILLEY, Truant Officer.
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Report of the Chief Engineer.
HEADQUARTERS FIRE DEPARTMENT, February 21, 1902.
To the Board of Selectmen ;
I have the pleasure to submit herewith the annual report of the Fire Department for the year ending February 21, 1902, according to the provisions the town by-laws. This is my seventh annual report and the twenty-third since the organization of the paid department of this town. I am pleased to state that the fire record for the past twelve months is very satisfactory, as it shows an estimated loss of only seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents ($759.25)-five thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars and seventy-five cents ($5,995.75) less than last year. This does not go to show that this town is out of danger in regard to fire, for the liabilities in regard to fires in this town are the same as in other towns. Bear in mind this town is growing very rapidly in regard to buildings.
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