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CAST
Secretary
Messenger
Mr. Laurence
Mr. Higginson
Henry Butt
Mr. Sanborn
Raymond Curtis
Mr. Harris
Leonard Kennedy
Gallant Company
Chorus
SKETCH OF LIFE OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Hazel Martin
THE HAWTHORNE PAGEANT
Graduates of the Clarke School
I. Chorus of Spirits of the Old Manse
2. Prologue
Florace Marden
3. First Episode (In Witchcraft Days)
Goody Gurton
Doris Libby
Philip Beaucoeur
Daniel Pierre
Governor Bradford
Edgar Harvey
Goodwife Williams Elma Smith
Barbara Williams
Thirza Palmer
Ye Puritan Folk
Members of Class
4. Dance Interlude
Fawnfoot (An Indian Maid) Barbara Williams
Minnie Natale Thirza Palmer
5. Merrymount
Simon Scarlett
Edgar Harvey
Sarah Scarlett (His Sister)
Dorothy Hall
Goody Gleason
Elma Smith
Resolute Endicott
Hazel Martin
Members of Class
12
Troop of Merrymounters
Walter Delano
Joseph McLeod Lyle Cate
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Melody in F
Rubenstein Maude Sutherland, Martha Keefe, Edwin Cook
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS Member of School Committee, J. Henry Welch
Gipsy Song . Arr. by Page Chorus
ACCOMPANIST - Miss Florence Shaw
Graduates of Hadley School.
Henry Archibald Butt Lyle Hobson Cate
Raymond Wilson Curtis Walter Francis Delano
Sarah Annie Heseltine
Leverett Thomas Holder, Jr.
Leonard Nelson Kennedy Thomas Austin Knowlton
Joseph Alexander McLeod Sherwood Lewis Morrill Ruth Evelyn Moses Christabel Reed Dorothy Streamberg
Kenneth Foster Swain Rowena Whorf
Graduates of Clarke School.
Bernard Holmes Bornstein Raymond Joseph Carroll Evelyn Angie Cate Etta Mildred Chase Rachel Frances Cook Dorothy Charlotte Hall Edgar Harold Harvey Philip Leawood Florence Doris Libby·
Florace Goddard Marden
Hazel Marie Martin Irene Grace Miller Minnie Lucille Natale Harold Edward Nichols
Thirza Felt Palmer
Daniel Francis Pierre
Ernest Fritjof Reinholm
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SWAMPSCOTT HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATING EXERCISES
AT THE
PHILLIPS SCHOOL BUILDING
Tuesday Evening, June 24, 1913, at 8 o'clock
Order of Erercises
INVOCATION
Rev. R. A. Withey
PART I.
"Building of the Ship " Longfellow-Lahee
Chorus-Build Me Straight Unison Trio-The Merchant's Word Boys' Unison Chorus-Thus Said He Chorus-Build Me Straight
SALUTATORY-" Musical Interpretations " Jessie Campbell Martin
" The Lost Message "
Alice Townsend Durgin
PART II.
DUET-" Beautiful They Were in Sooth "
" The Illiteracy Test " Mahlon Gilman Knowles
The Magazines of 1950
Zora Nute
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PART III.
SOLO-"The Master's Word"
Alto Unison-Thus with the Rising of the Sun Chorus-Happy, Thrice Happy Boys' Chorus-The Ocean Old Soprano Unison-On the Deck Chorus-The Prayer is Said Recitative and Chorus-Then the Master with a Gesture of Command
PRESENTATION OF CLASS GIFT- Philip William Osgood
ACCEPTANCE OF GIFT-
Raymond Percy Miller, 1914
PART IV.
SOLO-"How Beautiful She Is" TRIO-"Sail Forth Into The Sea of Life"
CHORUS-"Sail On, Nor Fear" VALEDICTORY-"Efficiency" Albert Worcester Chase
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS-
AWARDING OF PHILLIPS MEDALS-
Arthur W. Stubbs, Secretary of School Committee CLASS ODE-
May Beth Goodwin
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GRADUATES 1913.
Mary Caroline Bucknam Lillian Catherine Duncan Alice Townsend Durgin May Beth Goodwin Isabelle Kehoe Sadie Arletta McFarland Carol Antoinette Mclaughlin Jessie Campbell Martin Ruth Inez Munsey Irene Mildred Nies Zora Nute Emily Adelaide Riefkohl Sara Vivian Tuttle Viola Marion Wilson
Thomas Launcelot Barker Walter Russell Blanchard Albert Worcester Chase Richard Mellen Daniels Payson Haskell Gonnam Mahlon Gilman Knowles
Norman Ellis LeGallee Paul MacFarland Roland Albert Moody Harold Brackett Morrill Philip William Osgood Charles Voorhees Sidell Alexander John Wallace, Jr.
Post Graduate. Gladys Chestina Smith
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General Statistics.
SCHOOL CENSUS :
Boys between 5-15 years old .
· 588
Girls between 5-15 years old . . . . .
· 572
Total
. 1,160
Boys between 7-14 years old . .
· 444
Girls between 7-14 years old . .
· 398
Total
842
Enrollment in graded schools
. 958
Enrollment in High School . 240
Number of boys completing Grammar School course
17 Number of girls completing Grammar School course 17
Number of boys completing High School course 13
Number of girls completing High School course 14
Cases of truancy
5
Second offences
2
Number of educational certificates issued ·
127
Number of employment certficates (literate ) issued ·
8
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Growth of School Population During Last Five Years.
HIGH SCHOOL :
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
Graduates
22
I
I
I
2
Senior
19
16
16
27
31
Junior
21
23
31
31
49
Sophomore
27
32
35
52
50
Freshmen
43
49
55
52
108
Sub. Freshmen
52
58
57
82
Totals
.
.
.
.
.
169
179
195
245
240
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS :
Grade VIII
62
69
97
56
100
Grade VII
76
II3
74
109
114
Grade VI
I37
87
137
II6
94
Grade V
95
118
I2I
105
120
Grade IV
II6
118
124
143
115
Totals
.
.
486
495
5.53
529
543
PRIMARY SCHOOLS :
Grade III
130
I37
127
I35
96
Grade II
·
I35
I35
143
130
151
Grade I
I33
I66
158
167
196
Totals
398
438
428
432
443
Grand Totals
1046
III2
1176
I206
1226
Increase
.
.
23
66
64
30
20
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Teachers and Date of Election.
Phillips High School-Telephone 2574
Harold W. Loker (Harvard), Prin., 1907; A. Lillian Ride- out (Boston University), 1893; Sarah L. Bell (Hickox Short- hand), 1907; Eleanor D. Clement (Mt. Holyoke), 1910; Mary F. Davis (Mt. Holyoke), 1912; Mabelle Adams (Radcliffe), 1912 ; Annie Vance (Swampscott High), 1912 ; Gilbert Walker (Harvard), 1913; Adeline Lewis (Wellesley), 1913; Ruth Everett (Smith), 1913.
Hadley School-Telephone 2067.
Willard M. Whitman (Harvard), Prin., 1912; Elizabeth P. Dame (Mt. Holyoke), VIII, 1913; Mildred Young (Rhode Island Normal), VIII, 1913; Ellen M. Dewing (Natick High), VII, 1894) ; Lena Jenkin (Salem Normal), VII, 1912 ; Mary E. King (Quincy High) VII, 1912; Marietta Brady (Wellesley ), VI, 1913 ; Frances A. Gould (Holton High), V, 1888 ; Florence Gregg (Beverly Training), V, 1905 ; Mabel Very (Holton High) IV, 1896; Eva L. Knowlton (Farmington Normal), IV, 1912 ; Marion F. Newcomb (Salem Normal), III, 1910; Katherine Prescott (Salem Normal), II, 1902 ; L. Ardell Kimball (Salem Normal), I, 1903; Dorothy Jasinsky (Salem Normal), I, 1907.
Clarke School-Telephone 2127.
Alice L. Shaw (Salem Normal), Principal, 1902 ; Emily McFadden (Farmington Normal), VIII, 1912; Mary Caunt (Framingham Normal), VII, 1913; Jean Allen (Framingham Normal), VI, 1913; E. Jane Owen (Tilden Seminary), V, 1906; Mabel S. Knight (Salem Normal), IV, 1894; Edith H Farnum (Salem Normal), III, 1897; Marjorie Grey (Gorham Normal), II, 1913 ; Anna F. Willey (Salem Normal), I, 1902.
Machon School- Telephone 4858.
Edith S. Gardner, Principal (Swampscott High), IV, 1894 ; Isabelle DeLory (Salem Normal), III, 1910; Elsie M. Hussey (Salem Normal), II, 1907; Elsa Braley (Lowell Normal), I, 1907.
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Palmer School-Telephone 1954.
Louise C. Stanley (Wheaton Seminary), III, II, 1888; Blanche E. Doyle (Coburn Institute, Maine), 1903.
Supervisor of Music.
Eben F. Richardson, 1910.
Supervisor of Manual Training. S. P. Congdon, 1911.
Supervisor of Drawing.
Lula S. Dix, 1911.
Supervisor of Domestic Science. Alice J. Ballard, 1913.
Truant Officer.
Alfred F. Frazier, 32 Norfolk Avenue. Telephone, 1103-2.
School Physicians.
Dr. Howard K. Glidden, 50 Humphrey Street. Tel. 766-M
Dr. Loring Grimes, 149 Burrill Street. Tel. 1770
Dr. Harry M. Lowd, 90 Burrill Street. Tel. 4170 Dr. Ralph E. Bicknell, 46 Burrill Street. Tel. 159
School Dentist. L. S. Austin, 63 Pine Street. Telephone, 1935-M.
Janitors.
H. W. Wardwell, Phillips School, 8 Fuller Avenue. James Warnock, Hadley School, 179 Burrill Street. George I. Blake, Clarke School, 38 Hampden Street. A. G. Stone, Machon School, 49 Blaney Street. A. McNamara, Palmer School. 802 Humphrey Street.
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Extracts from the Educational Legislature of 1913.
CHAPTER 831.
An Act to Regulate the Labor of Minors.
SECTION 56. No minor under fourteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in or about or in connection with any factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical or mer- chantile establishment, public stable, garage, brick or lumber yard, barber shop, bootblack stand or establishment, telephone exchange, telegraph or messenger office or in the construction or repair of buildings, or in any contract or wage earning industry carried on in tenement or other houses. No minor under four- teen years of age shall be employed at work performed for wage or other compensation, to whomsoever payable, during the hours when the public schools are in session, or shall be employed at work before half past six o'clock in the morning or after six o'clock in the evening.
Minors Under Sixteen.
SECTION 2. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in operating or assisting in oper- ating any of the following machines : (1) circular or band saws, (2) wood shapers, (3) wood jointers, (4) planers, (5) picker machines or machines used in picking wool, cotton, hair or any other material, (6) paperlace machines, (7) leather burnishing machines, (8) job or cylinder printing presses oper- ated by power other than foot power, (9) stamping machines used in sheet metal and tinware or in paper or leather manufac- turing or in washer and nut factories, (10) metal or paper cutting machines, (II) corner staying machines in paper box factories, (12) corrugating rolls such as are used in corrugated paper or in roofing or washboard factories, (13) steam boilers, (14) dough brakes or cracker machinery of any description, (15) wire or iron straightening or drawing machinery, (16) rolling mill machinery, (17) power punches or shears, (18) washing or grinding or mixing machinery, (19) calender rolls in paper and rubber manufacturing or other heavy rolls driven by power, (20) laun- dering machinery, (21) upon or in connection with any dangerous electrical machinery or appliances.
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SECTION 3. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in any capacity in adjusting, or assisting in adjusting any hazardous belt to any machinery, or in oiling or cleaning hazardous machinery, or in proximity to any hazardous or unguarded belts, machinery or gearing while such machinery or gearing is in motion ; nor on scaffolding ; nor in heavy work in the building trades ; nor in stripping, assorting, manufacturing or packing tobacco; nor in any tunnel; nor in a public bowling alley ; nor in a pool or billiard room.
Minors under Eighteen.
SECTION 5. No minor under eighteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work : (1) in or about blast furnaces ; (2) in the operation or management of hoisting machines ; (3) in oiling or cleaning hazardous machinery in motion; (4) in the operation or use of any polishing or buffing wheel ; (5) at switch tending ; (6) at gate tending; (7) at track repairing; (8) as a brakeman, fireman, engineer, motorman or conductor upon a railroad or railway ; (9) as a fireman or engineer upon any boat or vessel ; (10) in operating motor vehicles of any description ; (II) in or about establishments wherein gunpowder, nitro-glyc- erine, dynamite or other high or dangerous explosive is manu- factured or compounded ; (12) in the manufacture of white or yellow phosphorus or phosphorus matches; (13) in any distil- lery, brewery or any other establishment where malt or alcoholic liquors are manufactured, packed, wrapped or bottled ; (14) in that part of any hotel, theatre, concert hall, place of amusement or other establishment where intoxicating liquors are sold. The provisions of this section shall not prohibit the employment of minors in drug stores.
Persons under Twenty-One.
SECTION 8. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in, about or in connection with any establishment or occupation named in section one for more than six days in any one week, nor more than forty-eight hours in any one week, nor more than eight hours in any one day, nor before the hour of half-past six o'clock in the morning, nor after the hour of six o'clock in the evening of any day.
SECTION 9. No boy under the age of eighteen years and no girl under the age of twenty-one years shall be employed or per- mitted to work in, about or in connection with any establishment
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or occupation named in section one for more than six days in any one week, nor more than fifty-four hours in any one week, nor more than ten hours in any one day, nor before five o'clock in the morning, nor after the hour of ten o'clock in the evening, nor in the manufacture of textile goods after six o'clock in the evening.
SECTION 10. Except for the delivery of messages directly connected with the business of conducting or publishing a news- paper, to a newspaper directly between newspaper offices, no person under the age of twenty-one years shall be employed or permitted to work as messenger for telegraph, telephone or mes- senger company in the distribution, transmission or delivery of goods or messages before five o'clock in the morning or after ten o'clock in the evening of any one day.
Street Trades.
SECTION II. No boy under twelve years of age and no girl under eighteen years of age shall, in any city having a population of over fifty thousand inhabitants, sell, expose or offer for sale any newspapers, magazines, periodicals, or any other articles of merchandise of any description, or exercise the trade of boot- black or scavenger, or any other trade, in any street or public place.
SECTION 15. No boy under sixteen years of age shall engage in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in Section eleven in any street or public place after nine o'clock in the evening or before five o'clock in the morning of any day, nor, unless provided with an employment certificate, during the hours when the public schools in the city where such boy resides, or the schools such boy attends, are in session.
CHAPTER 779.
An Act Relative to SchoolAttendance and to the Employment of Minors.
SECTION 57. No child between fourteen and sixteen years of age shall be employed or be permitted to work in, about or in connection with any factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechan- ical or mercantile establishment unless the person, firm or cor- poration employing such child procures and keeps on file, acces- sible to the attendance officers of the city or town, to agents of the Board of Education, and to the State Board of Labor and Industries or its authorized agents or inspectors, the employment
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certificate as hereinafter provided issued to such child, and keeps a complete list of the names and ages of all such children em- ployed therein conspicuously posted near the principal entrance of the building in which such children are employed ; provided, however, that children who are over fourteen but under sixteen years of age, shall be permitted to work in mercantile establish- ments on Saturdays, between the hours of seven in the morning and six in the evening, without such certificate.
SECTION 66. No child who is over sixteen and under twenty- one years of age shall be employed in a factory, workshop, man- ufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment unless his employer procures and keeps on file an educational certificate showing the age of the child and his ability or inability to read and write as hereinafter provided.
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Report of Board of Health.
To the Citizens of Swampscott :
The board of Health herewith submits for your consideration its report for the year ending December 31, 1913.
At the first meeting held February 19, 1913, Loring Grimes, M. D., was chosen chairman, and appointments made as follows :
Clerk, Frank E. Littlefield. Plumbing Inspector, Martin E. Nies. Assistant Plumbing Inspector, Edward C. Phillips. Milk Inspector, Herbert D. Smith.
Inspector of Animals and Slaughtering, F. B. Stratton, M. D. V. To care for offal at beach, Charles Melvin. Special Clerk, George T. Till.
Milk Inspection.
The inspection of milk, the producers and salesmen of same, is a very important part of our work. By seeing to it that the town is supplied with fresh, clean, unadulterated milk, we may thereby prevent much sickness and the spreading of contagious diseases. We have followed this matter up carefully during the year and feel well repaid for our work, in that the records show that we have not in one case been able to blame our milk supply in any way. At present the milk distributed about town com- pares very favorably with that of other towns.
Brooks and Drains.
At a special town meeting called October 10, the town voted an appropriation of $500 to be spent for the cleaning of brooks, the work to be done by Surveyor of Highways under the su- pervision of the Board of Health. The board decided that the money could be spent to the best advantage by starting at a given point and cleaning thoroughly a stretch of brook that had given the most trouble to the townspeople.
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Therefore, the brook along the State Road was thoroughly cleaned, so that it now runs freely from its source to the outlet. This, however, did not take all of the money, so the balance was spent in the necessary cleaning of the brook on Hillside avenue, running down by the Upper Swampscott car barns, also the one on Pine street, and a portion of the brook which had given us considerable trouble where it crosses Salem street. (For further detail see report of Surveyor of Highways.) The work done, although not of a permanent nature, has greatly relieved con- ditions temporarily and we feel if the same amount could be had each year we might for a time be able to keep conditions of our brooks and drains in a much more satisfactory condition. The box drains on the lower beach, with the brooks running into them, are in a deplorable condition, and the board feels the same should be taken care of at an early date.
Beaches.
The beaches have received their usual attention, and every effort has been made to keep them in a satisfactory condition.
Infectious Diseases.
There have been more contagious diseases about town this year than for a number of previous years. This, as far as we can determine, is in no way due to local conditions. This may partly be due to the fact that we have been much more exacting in enforcing the law regarding the reporting of these diseases. We have cared for four patients at Lynn Contagious Hospital for a total of 15 weeks, 5 days.
The following is a tabulated list for the year :
Diptheria
8
Scarlet Fever
.
2 I
Measles
·
150
Typhoid .
5
Tuberculosis
.
4
Whooping Cough
14
Othalmeia Neonatorium
.
I
Chicken Pox
.
I
Eye Diseases
3
.
.
School Inspection.
Owing to the fact that Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria have been more or less prevalent, we have made many special inspections of
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the school children, and we feel by so doing we have, to some extent, prevented what might have been an epidemic.
Pest House.
The pest house has not been used the past year, but is being kept in good repair and ready for use when the occasion demands it.
Tuberculosis.
During the year we have cared for two patients at the State Sanitorium for a total of 592 weeks.
Mosquitoes and Flies.
We have been combating these pests with the same zeal of last year, and we feel with more success. Some late scientific studies bring to our attention the fact that stable flies are probably the source of Anterior Poliomyelitis, or what is commonly known as Infantile Paralysis.
On account of this we shall make an effort the coming year to do away with all accumulation of stable manure that is not prop- erly cared for, as such accumulations are breeding places for flies.
Complaints.
The following is a tabulated list :
Ashes
5
Swill
4
Overflowing Cesspools
9
Unsanitary Conditions
27
Carrion
19
New Regulations.
We have adopted the following new regulations the past year, and hope the citizens will co-operate with us in carrying them out.
REGULATION 30. No person shall keep any fowl or animal in any part of a dwelling-house, or in any place in the Town where the Board of Health may deem such keeping detrimental to the health or comfort of the residents of the neighborhood, or to those who may pass thereby. All henneries, dog kennels and pens for any animals shall be kept clean and free from decaying food and from filth of any kind. The buildings and pens shall be whitewashed or disinfected and put in such condition as may be ordered by the Board of Health.
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REGULATION 31. No swine, horses or cattle shall be kept within the limits of the Town without a license first obtained therefor from the Board of Health, and then only in such places and manner as it shall direct.
REGULATION 32. Owners and occupants of livery and other stables within the Town shall not wash or clean their carriages or horses, or cause them to be washed or cleaned, in the streets or public ways. They shall keep their stables and yards clean, and not allow manure to accumulate in or near the same ; and no manure shall be allowed to accumulate or remain uncovered outside of a stable building.
Recommendations.
We strongly recommend that action be taken and an appro- priation made for the care of brooks and drains.
We also recommend the following as appropriations for the year 1914 :
Sanitation
$2,900 00
Refuse and Garbage 3,075 00
Respectfully submitted,
LORING GRIMES, M. D., Chairman, GEORGE C. WEBSTER, JOHN B. CAHOON.
FRANK E. LITTLEFIELD, Clerk.
SWAMPSCOTT, January 1, 1914.
13
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Report of Inspector of Plumbing.
To the Board of Health :
GENTLEMEN,- I herewith submit my eleventh annual report for the year 1912-1913. The work of the office is shown as follows :
Plumbing permits issued 150
Permits refused
7
Complaints investigated
44
Cases reported to Board
25
Cases settled by Board
25
Registered master plumbers
.
I3
Registered journeymen plumbers I2
All others
II6
· Respectfully submitted,
MARTIN E. NIES, Inspector of Plumbing.
SWAMPSCOTT, MASS., December 31, 1913.
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Report of Milk Inspector.
To the Board of Health :
GENTLEMEN,- I hereby submit my report as Milk Inspector for the year 1912-13 as follows :
Number of samples of milk taken and analyzed 68
Number of samples of milk found under the standard IO
Number of samples of milk taken for bacteria test . .
32
Number of samples of milk that passed bacteria test 23
Number of licenses issued for the sale of milk · 43
Amount received for licenses twenty-one dollars and fifty cents ($21.50), which amount I have paid to the Town Treas- urer, and hold his receipt for the same.
Respectfully submitted,
H. D. SMITH, Milk Inspector.
SWAMPSCOTT, MASS., December 31, 1913.
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Report of Inspector of Animals.
To the Board of Health:
GENTLEMEN,-I herewith submit my report as Inspector of Animals, for the year ending February, 1914 :
At the time of the annual inspection, which was made last spring, the animals in general were in good condition and their quarters were kept clean and well ventilated.
This year the method of reporting the condition of the prem- ises has been changed somewhat. Heretofore, the condition of things was reported to the State Bureau of Animal Industry just as they appeared at the time of the inspection, but under the new system the owner will be furnished with a carbon copy of the Inspector's report of the quarters as he finds them. In cases where there are alterations or repairs necessary a reason- able time will be granted for the same and a second inspection made, at which time, provided the required changes have been made, the owner will receive a "clean bill."
During the year there have been two interstate cows quaran- tined which were later released ; also one case of glanders, the afflicted animal being condemned and killed.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK B. STRATTON.
SWAMPSCOTT, MASS., January 1, 1914.
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TREE WARDEN'S REPORT.
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Report of the Tree Warden.
To the Citizens of Swampscott :
I herewith submit my fourth annual report.
Seventy-five trees were planted on public ways in the spring. All except one are still living, and that was replaced by another this fall. Each newly planted tree was provided with a wire guard and all old guards were adjusted, six hundred and twelve square feet of wire being used. Nineteen trees were removed, one of which was girdled by a horse, three were run into and destroyed by heavy vehicles, and one was killed by gas. All wounds have been properly dressed as previously, and the cal- lousing is very noticeable rolling in at the sides of the cuts. The elm beetle has been successfully controlled by spraying, and the leopard moth is not as much in evidence. During the summer the trees were patrolled and the borers hooked out by means of a wire turned up on the end to make a hook. As many as fifty have been taken from one tree and in order to preserve the trees the work should be continued. Few trees showed signs of saw flies in the early summer, and if they appear next spring it will be necessary to apply a remedy for them.
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