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Tables showing the transactions during the period from 1904 to 1915 are included in this report. The books of the Water and Sewer Board and Town Accountant were adjusted so as to show the true condition of these accounts.
Forms have been prepared for committing assessments to the collector, also forms for notifying the assessors, town accountant, and collector of all accounts apportioned ; and cards have been prepared for the assessors upon which apportioned accounts are recorded, to be committed as they become due.
The forms upon which notifications of apportioned accounts are made call for the reporting of the name, number, amount, and number of years over which the amount is spread, also the year and amount of the last assessment, in order that any fraction in the assessment may be properly adjusted.
In order that a clear and satisfactory statement might be made on the sewer assessment accounts, an exhaustive tabulation of each assessment account from the time of laying the first assessment was necessary.
The fact that some assessments were paid without a regular commit- ment, that others were apportioned with interest added and collected, and others laid and not committed until the results of the investigation were presented to the Board, necessitated the outlay of considerable time and labor in reconciling the accounts.
Where the taxpayer has a number of options, as is the case in sewer assessments, the accounts, at best, are complicated; but the necessary forms have been provided and instructions given, which should eliminate any future difficulty. Duplicate payments aggregating $126.22 have been set up as accounts payable and should be refunded.
Included in the uncollected accounts are assessments on Town property which must be provided for by appropriation or charged against the sur- plus account, as shown on the balance sheet.
Sewer Assessments.
Assessments as listed from original assessment books $46,552 66 · Assessments dated January 1, 1915, on account of Bates Road, Green- wood avenue, Humphrey street, King street, Millett road, and Monument avenue 2,990 94
$49,543 60
Amounts paid in excess of amount of assessment (adjusted in interest account) :
No. 14 . $0 30
No. 15 26 .
No. 7
. OI No. 75 . . I5
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No. 86
08
No. 100 .
26
No. 129-30
4 80
No. 143 ·
34
No. 171
16
No. 179
40
No. 183
13
No. 234
I 65
No. 267
22
No. 268
79
No. 292
32
No. 298
04
No. 302-3
27
No. 312
OI
No. 368
16
No. 383
10
No. 398
19
No. 519
64
No. 520
OI
No. 547
12
No. 554-5-6
48
No. 561
17
No. 645
08
No. 855 ·
59
Accounts paid twice-see cash book pages 23 and 25.
No. 465
$28 89
No. 466 .
29 91
Accounts committed and paid on tax accounts, also paid on original assessment.
No. 229 on 1911 taxes 5 56
Accounts on apportionment cards previously paid on taxes or origi- nal assessment. (adjusted by abatement.)
No. 229, 1911 taxes and original
assessment . $27 76
No. 624, 1911 taxes . 18 70
Amounts on apportionment cards in excess of amounts due (adjusted on cards).
No. 39 $0 05
No. 58 . OI
No. 79 03 No. 99 OI No. 133 05
$13 73
58 80
$78 09
$46 46
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No. 635
$ 01
No. 683
No. 686
1
No. 695
03
No. 903
No. 921
OI
No. 948
05
$0 28
Accounts on commitment dated
August 1, 1915, also on apportion- ment cards (adjusted on commit- ment).
No. 59
$36 99
No. 76
34 32
71 31
$118 05
Amounts committed on taxes and abated for various reasons.
Taxes, 1910
$179 15
Taxes, 1911
64 56
Taxes, 1912
88 48
Taxes, 1913
319 62
651 81
Accounts committed on 1913 taxes and abated, to be added to new commitment.
No. 61
$6 06
No. 98
25 84
No. 705
55 50
No. 724
27 44
No. 901
61 06
No. 949
41 25
No. 955
22 00
Refund to H. Scott Tuttle ·
18 35
$50,649 05
Amount of commitment dated
August 1, 1915
$4,931 02
Amount apportioned as listed from apportionment cards
912 39
$5,843 41
Accounts to be added to new com- mitment.
No. 3
$31 94
No. 43
58.74
No. 5
. 23 96
No. 51
. 27 18
No. 309 · 76 07
No. 503-4-5-6-7
249 46
No. 595 ·
. 160 36
No. 620 . 15 56 .
No. 621 . 1 83
No. 625-56 . . 363 63
239 15
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No. 685
$5 00
No. 721
27 78
No. 910
134 10
No. 915
30 03
No. 939
2 51
No. 956
5 32
No. 110-11-12-10I
42
No. 286
30
No. 678
60
$1,315 79
Accounts abated to be added to new committment.
No. 61
$6 06
No. 98
25 84
No. 705
55 50
No. 724
27 44
No. 901
61 06
No. 949
41 25
No. 955
22 00
239 15
Account to be added to apportion- ment cards.
No. 336
2 75
Difference between amounts on ap- portionment cards and amounts due (adjusted on cards).
No. 86
$0 03
No. 128
OI
No. 189
3 03
No. 351
04
No. 514
08
No. 596
6 26
No. 682
02
No. 697
09
No. 704
07
No. 821
04
9 67
$1,567 36
Amounts committed to Collector,
not including interest.
Taxes, 1910
$522 94
Taxes, 1911
567 03
Taxes, 1912
176 71
Taxes, 1913
2,486 19
Accounts cancelled.
No. 8, no benefit
$41 80
No. 565, no benefit
.
87 36
No. 678, can not connect
41 88
No. 950, can not connect
16 52
.
187 56
Cash received, per cash book errors adjusted.
39,297 85
$50,649 05
-
3,752 87
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Reconciliation of Cash Book Entries.
Sewer Assessments. Total receipts. per Cash Book
$39,281 68
Assessments entered as Particular Sewers.
No. 637
$30 63
No. 689
2 78
No. 900
2 75
36 16
Assessments entered as Interest.
No. 37
$0 03
No. 223
· 07
No. 604.
03
13
Refund of duplicate payment . .
18 35
$39,336 32
Particulars entered as Assessments.
No. 731
$14 82
Interest entered as Assessments.
No. 63
$0 14
No. 155
5
No. 336
14
No. 525
19
No. 584
78
No. 851
14 04
No. 934 ,
8 31
Total receipts (corrected)
23 65 39,297 85
$39,336 32
Particular Sewer Assessments.
Assessments as listed from original assessment books.
$14,007 06
Assessments dated January 1, 1915, on account of Bates road, Green- wood avenue, Humphrey street, King street, Millett road and Monument avenue, 389 31
$14,396 37
Amounts paid in excess of assess- ment (adjusted in interest account)
No. 99 $0 40
No. 324 IO
No. 346 OI
No. 445
. 02
No. 105
1 00
-
$1 53
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Accounts committed and paid on tax accounts, also paid on orig- inal assessment.
No. 750 on 1910 taxes, $7 41
No. 523 on 1910 taxes, 6 93
No. 867 on 1913 taxes, 20 81
$35 15
Accounts committed and paid twice on tax accounts.
No. 745, Taxes 1910 and 1911, 15 96
$52 64
Accounts on apportionment cards previously paid on taxes (adjusted by abatement and on cards).
No. 280, 1911 taxes . $7 75
No. 523, 1910 taxes . 77
$8 52
Amounts on apportionment cards in excess of amounts due (adjusted on cards).
No. 667
$0 or
No. 813 · OI
No. 668
03
No. 34 03
No. 828
02
No. 176 .
03
13
Accounts on commitment dated August 1, 1915, also on apportion- ment cards (adjusted on commit- ment)
No. 56
$14 25
No. 73 . 9 12
23 37
32 02
Amounts committed on taxes and
abated for various reasons.
Taxes, 1910
$33 06
Taxes, 1913
58 00
Accounts committed on 1913 taxes and abated, to be added to new commitment.
No. 58
$15 39
No. 830
8 84
No. 821
10 83
No. 831 · 8 55
No. 91
9 35
No. 693
22 80
91 06
75 76
$14,647 85
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Amount of commitment dated, August 1, 1915
$1,002 81
Amount apportioned as listed from apportionment cards .
164 85
$1,167 66
Accounts to be added to new com- mitment.
No. 690
$13 68
No. 822
2 60
No. 589
9 29
No. 808
9 69
No. 584
2 64
No. 741
77
No. 792
17 39
$56 06
Accounts abated, to be added to new commitment.
No. 58
$15 39
No. 830
8 84
No. 821
10 83
No. 831
8 55
No. 91
9 35
No. 693
22 80
75 76
Difference between amounts on apportionment cards and amounts due.
No. 92
$0 04
No. 83
03
No. 73
57
No. 76
03
No. 701
05
72
132 54
Amounts committed to Collector,
not including interest
Taxes, 1910
$354 44
Taxes, 1911
160 78
Taxes, 1912
23 09
Taxes, 1913
359 58
897 89
Accounts cancelled.
No. 315, paid by work
$1I 46
No. 630, can not connect
7 98
No. 637, assessed in error
33 06
No. 746, property in Lynn
15 68
No. 748, property in Lynn
13 97
No. 749, property in Lynn
14 54
96 69
Cash received, per cash book errors adjusted 12,353 07
$14,647 85
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Reconciliation of Cash Book Entries.
Particular Sewer Assessments. Total receipts, per Cash Book $12,420 90
Particular Sewers entered as assess- ments .
14 82
Particular Sewers entered as interest
No. 783
$0 01
No. 302
03
No. 298 .
OI
05
$12,435 77
Assessments entered as particular Sewers
No. 637 ·
$30 63
No. 689 · 2 78
No. 900
2 75
$36 16
Drains entered as Particular Sewers, 46 54
Total receipts (corrected)
12,353 07
$12,435 77
Drain Assessments.
Assessments as listed from original assessment books
$917 31
Account committed and paid on tax accounts, also paid on origi- nal assessment.
No. 249 on 1910 taxes $3 75
Account committed and paid twice
on tax accounts. No. 245, taxes 1910 and 1911 ·
7 00
IO 75
Account on apportionment cards in excess of amount due (adjusted on cards)
No. 257 50 .
$928 56
Amount apportioned as listed from apportionment cards $6 54
Amounts committed to Collector, not including interest.
Taxes, 1910 $29 67
Taxes, 19II
IO 84
Taxes, 1913 . .
4 50
45 OI
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Accounts cancelled.
No. 246, property in Lynn .
$6 88 No. 243, property in Lynn 6 13
$13 01
Cash received, per Cash Book errors
adjusted
864 00
$928 56
Reconciliation of Cash Book Entries.
Drain Assessments.
Total receipts, per Cash Book $817 45 46 54 . .
Drains entered as Particular Sewers .
Drain entered as interest No. 34 ·
.
OI
Total receipts (corrected)
$864 00 $864 00
The water receipts, as shown by the cash book, agree with the payments to the Treasurer and with the returns to the Town Accountant. The receipts were not posted to the commitment register at the time the audit of the accounts was made, but this has subsequently been done. It did not seem advisable to check individual items at this time, since a complete check will be made at the end of the year.
In addition to the departmental receipts enumerated, there have been received for licenses, permits and services the following amounts : By the town clerk, $122 for two junk and one pool and billiard licenses, which was paid the treasurer ; by the treasurer, $51 for 47 garage permits and two auctioneer licenses issued by the selectmen; by the janitor of the town hall, $448 for rents and $5.89 for telephone, of which $425.89 was deposited with the treasurer; by the police department, $78 from the Bureau of Animal Industry ; fire department, $12.01, of which $10.51 was telephone reimbursements and $1.50 was on account of a refund ; health department, $1.40; highway, $6 for crushed stone; and park department, $102.70 for rent of boat house, all of which was paid the treasurer.
The only receipts shown for the Sealer of Weights and Measures and the forest warden are those collected by the treasurer, which were $2.92 on account of the former and $20.05 for the latter.
CONCLUSION .- The balance sheet as of June 30, 1915, showing the financial condition of the Town, should receive very careful considera- tion, as the surplus shown is less than the aggregate accounts receivable, which are always on the books.
The Budget discloses the fact that a large amount was appropriated from the Excess and Deficiency Fund. It is perfectly proper to appropriate such portion of this fund as represents free cash in the treasury ; but to appropriate uncollected accounts without a legal right to borrow in antici- pation of the collection of the same, will oblige the treasurer to use funds raised for other purposes if bills on account of appropriations made from the Excess and Deficiency Fund are paid. The surplus as shown includes the corrected sewer assessment accounts, some of which are assessed on Town property. These accounts will have to be appropriated for and raised ; if charged off, the surplus will be further reduced.
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While engaged in making the audit, I received the hearty cooperation of every Town official, and all books and records were cheerfuly supplied. The chairman and clerk of the water and sewer board greatly assisted me in the checking of the accounts, and gave much valuable time to the work ; to them and to the several Town officers, I wish to express my apprecia- tion for their cooperation and their assistance.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD H. FENTON, Chief Accountant.
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TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT. Balance Sheet - June 30, 1915.
General Accounts.
ASSETS.
Cash :
In Banks
$19,893 99
Accounts Receivable :
Taxes
Levy of 1913
$1,617 80
Levy of 1914
14,325 46 .
15,943 26
Special Assessments :
Moth, 1913
$37 75
Moth, 1914
124 50
162 25
Sidewalks .
356 04
Apportioned Sewers, 1913
$95 37
Unapportioned Sewers .
7,525 91
7,621 28
Water Rates, etc.
11,391 88
Tax Titles held by Town
65 46
Revenue, 1915-To be raised .
· $265,000 98
Less Collections (Estimated Receipts )
4,359 13 ·
260,641 85
Overdrafts :
Expense of issuing Notes and Bonds
$114 40
Special Assessments Abated . .
78 50
$192 90
Loans Authorized
66,000 00
$382,268 91
.
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TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT.
Balance Sheet -June 30, 1915.
General Accounts.
LIABILITIES.
Temporary Loans :
Anticipation of Revenue, 1915
$125,000 00
Overpayments to be Refunded : Sewer Assessments
126 22
Appropriation Balances :
General
.
. $95,494 44
Special
. 108,542 96
Interest .
12,809 07
Debt .
· 24,277 25
241,123 72
Overlay Reserved for Abatements :
Levy of 1913
$332 54
Levy of 1914
1,354 21
1,686 75
Water Revenue :
Reserved when collected for Water Dept. . · Surplus Revenue : Supplementary Taxes, 1914 $527 18
11,391 88
Sewer Assessments, 1915 . 3,380 25
Less Deficit of Revenue, 1914 on Account of Sewer Assessments 967 09
$3,907 43
2,94º 34
$382,268 91
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TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT.
Balance Sheet-June 30, 1915.
Deferred Accounts.
ASSETS.
Sewer Assessments, Apportioned but not due $1,095 24
Debt Accounts.
Water Loan Sinking Fund .
. $68,304 60
Net Funded or Fixed Debt . . . . 720,445 40 - $788,750 00
-
$788,750 00
Trust and Investment Accounts.
Trust and Investment Funds (Securities) , . .
. $13,691 27
$13,691 27
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Balance Sheet-June 30, 1915.
Deferred Accounts.
LIABILITIES.
Apportioned Sewer Assessment, due 1915-1924 . $1,095 24
Debt Accounts.
Permanent Improvement Notes
· $316,600 00
Sewer Bonds (Serial) .
228,750 00 ·
Water Bonds (Serial) .
.
· 93,400 00
Water Bonds (Sinking Fund)
150,000 00
$788,750 00
$788,750 00
Trust and Investment Accounts.
Phillips School Medal Fund
$1,591 97
Joanna Morse Library Fund 6,786 18 ·
A. F. Nesbitt Cemetery Fund (Private) A. F. Nesbitt Cemetery Fund (General) Cemetery Lots Investment Fund
214 44
236 64
4,862 04
.
·
$13,691 27
$13,691 27
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE-1915.
J. HENRY WELCH Telephone 1286-W.
38 Sheridan road
ARTHUR W. STUBBS, Secretary Telephone 4344-R.
74 Paradise road
REV. EDWARD TILLOTSON, Chairman . Telephone 2481.
. 60 Monument avenue
Regular meeting, first Tuesday of each month at 8 o'clock P. M.
Superintendent of Schools. WILLARD M. WHITMAN, 9 Fuller terrace ; Telephone 1928.
Office of Superintendent of Schools, Hadley School; Telephone 2067.
The Superintendent's Office is open on school days from 8.30 to 11.30, and from 1.30 to 5.
The Superintendent's office hours on school days are from 3.30 to 4.30 every day except Wednesday.
Clerk to Superintendent : Florence M. Butterworth, 5 Crescent street.
School Calendar.
Winter Term closes on Friday, February 18, 1916. Spring Term begins on Monday, February 28, 1916. Spring Term closes on Friday, April 14, 1916. Summer Term begins on Monday, April 24, 1916. Summer Term closes on Friday, June 23, 1916.
Fall Term begins on Monday, September 11, 1916.
Legal Holidays.
The words "legal holiday" shall include the twenty-second day of February, the nineteenth day of April, the thirtieth day of May, the fourth day of July, the first Monday of September, the twelfth day of October, Thanksgiving day and Christmas day, or the day following when any of the four days first mentioned, the twelfth day of October or Christmas day occurs on Sunday ; and the public offices shall be closed on all of said days .- Chapter 136, Acts of 1911.
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Observance of Flag Day.
Resolved, That the governor shall annually set apart the fourteenth day of June as Flag Day, the date being the anniversary of the adoption of the national flag by the Continental Congress in the year seventeen hun- dred and twenty-seven ; and shall issue his proclamation recommending that the day be observed by the people of the commonwealth in the dis- play of the flag and in such other ways as will be in harmony with the general character of the day .- Chapter 5, Resolves of 1911.
No School Signals
Two double strokes of the fire alarm 2-2.
7.20 A. M. No school in the High School and grades VII and VIII.
7.50 A. M. No morning session in grades I to VI inclusive.
12.50 P. M. No afternoon session in grades I to VI inclusive.
Important .- If the signal does not ring at 7.20 but rings at 7.50 sessions of school will be held in the High School and grades VII and VIII and no school in grades I to VI inclusive.
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Report of the School Committee.
To the Citizens of the Town of Swampscott:
In reviewing the work of the schools for the year of 1915, it is essential to note that an annual increase in enrollment has been maintained with every prospect of continuance. This condition is the natural result of an ever increasing population, the desirability of Swampscott as a place of residence attracting many families to the Town. It is largely because Swampscott offers the prospective citizen more for his annual tax than the average town that families in other communities are prompted to come here and establish their homes. Good streets, good water, adequate sewerage and lighting systems and other public conveniences and neces- sities are offered in Swampscott in larger proportion to the tax rate than they are in most other towns.
Not the least of these considerations is the educational system. It is absolutely a first essential to the growth and prosperity of any community that good schools, conducted along progressive lines, and meeting all the requirements of an advancing constituency, be provided for the children. Were the schools of Swampscott to retrograde or remain in a fixed posi- tion, the other attractions which the Town offers would soon lose their drawing power, and the Town itself would speedily fall behind communi- ties which now look to it for example. The first question of a prospective resident relates to the schools. They must be up-to-date and progressive. Your committee has aimed to make them so, and believes it may note with pardonable satisfaction that the progress of the past year has been in pro- portion to the demands placed upon it. It believes that the results obtained must be recognized in every household in which there are children attending the schools.
One of the chief duties of a school committee in any community is to see to it that the Town gets full value for the money expended. Waste is one of the greatest evils of government. Constant watchfulness is necessary to prevent unnecessary expenditures. It has been the aim of your Committee to get the best for as little money as possible. Expendi- tures involving large sums have been made only after thorough discussion and investigation. Mistakes may have been made at times, but the effort invariably has been to provide the school department with its needs at a minimum of cost. To this end your committee and superintendent have carefully examined prospective expenditures and have purchased only when they have believed the best in price and article have been obtained .*
Early in the year your Committee faced the situation of a greatly over- crowded High School and went before the Town to get relief. A Com- mittee was appointed, funds were appropriated, and the work of building a four-room addition and gymnasium to the structure was commenced.
*(For analysis of costs see Report of Superintendent of Schools.)
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In addition a new heating plant was installed and modifications made in the old building. During the progress of a greater part of this work the High School students were transferred to the Hadley School, where room had been provided for them by forcing conditions highly undesirable but adsolutely necessary under the circumstances. Under this stress the work of the High School was carried on through the month of June and until late in October in the fall. With the practical completion of the High School building addition the students again took up their work under normal conditions, and the congestion which had existed in a more or less degree for several years has ceased for the time being.
One of the greatest problems which appears to constantly face your Committee lies in providing adequate housing for the pupils. No sooner is congestion relieved in one locality than it appears in another. In a considerable degree relief has been found in the transfer of pupils from one building to another, the somewhat compact area of the populated parts of the Town enabling more of this than could be done in most places. With the High School provided with adequate room for the present, your Committee finds somewhat crowded conditions appearing in other direc- tions. The Hadley School is rapidly filling, the Clarke School is always crowded, the Machon and Palmer Schools are comfortably filled. What is the next move? This is a question toward which the Town must direct consideration very soon. The Machon School is an old structure that has passed its days of real usefulness. It has nothing to commend itself save perhaps its location. Some attempt was made a few years ago to place it in a sanitary condition, but this at best was a mere makeshift and the old building is now very much in need of such extensive repairs that your Committee believes it would be waste and extravagance to attempt them. The old building is now serving a growing district and sending pupils to the Clarke and Hadley Schools because of its inability to care for them. A larger, more modern building in the Machon district would give imme- diate relief to the Clarke School, provide the well-lighted, well-ventilated and comfortable quarters to which the children in that part of the Town are entitled, and postpone crowded conditions at the Hadley School build- ing. Your Committee recommends the appointment of a Committee to look into the situation at the Machon School and report with recom- mendations at a later Town Meeting.
At the other end of the Town the Palmer School is destined ultimately to provide for its pupils for at least another grade. Three grades are taught there at present, the pupils leaving for the Hadley School to take up the work of the fourth. An addition to this building at some time in the future is inevitable, but for the time being your Committee, in con- junction with the superintendent, has taken steps to provide fourth grade work under present conditions. In all these steps your Committee is trying to fulfil its obligation of solving the school problems to the best advantage of the Town.
The tendency among the foremost educators of the country to urge a consolidation of the upper grades of the elementary schools and the freshman year of the High schools is finding a rapidly growing response among progressive communities, and sooner or later the plan will be generally adopted. Your Committee sees in it infinite possibilities for the good of the children, and has been gradually bringing the work of the
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seventh and eighth grades under one head in the Hadley School. The results have been very satisfactory, and encourage the belief that a merg- ing with the freshman class of the High School sooner or later would result in better work, greater interest and less dropping out of school. By the adoption of this plan in its entirety the abrupt break, which now occurs between the grade schools and the High school, would be eliminated and the boys and girls move through their educational period with little or no excuse to drop out until the High school work has been completed.
Your committee has continued its endeavor to provide the schools with the very best teachers obtainable at the salaries offered. It believes it is gradually establishing a corps of teachers not to be excelled anywhere. No teacher is employed until after the superintendent has thoroughly investigated her work, her character and her fitness for the position offered. To be sure, the salaries offered are exceeded in many places, but other advantages which the Town offers have served to enable your committee and the superintendent to bring together a very efficient and loyal corps of teachers who are doing good work among the children of the Town.
There has been constant indication of a growing interest in the schools on the part of the parents. This is highly desirable, and the school com- mittee desires to encourage the cooperation of the fathers and mothers upon whom so much depends in the successful development of the child. There can be no satisfactory results among children in whom the parents have not sufficient interest to ascertain by visits upon the teachers, prin- cipals and superintendent as to the progress of their work, their attitute in school and what may be done to give assistance to the schools.
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