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9. Jennie Mabel Spear.
10. Henry Matthew.
16. Elizabeth Vinson Martin.
17. Catherine Sweeney.
20. Chas. Henry Davis.
Date of Birth. Apr.
20. Percy Everett Merritt.
20. Frank Eastman Hammond.
22. Geo. Abner Trask.
29. Bertie Thomas Loud.
30. William Newman.
30. Fanny Irving Leonard. May
1. Margaret Jane Tracy.
5. James Francis Cuneen.
8. Henry Furber Bradford.
9. Albert Henry Phetteplace.
10. Geo. Holbrook Sprague.
10. Hugh Patrick Conlan.
11. Margaret Frances Dwyer.
11. Freddie Vinson Armington.
12. Mary Lizzie Vining.
13. Mary Ellen Veno.
14. Bridget Smitlı.
20. Female child of Patrick and Eliza Slattery.
22. Joanna Theresa Moran.
24. Frederick Warren Stoddard.
24. Frederick Wilbar White.
25. Frank Herbert Miller.
26. Angeline May Gutterson.
28. John White.
-. Bridget Tormey. June
1. Wm. Ellis Field.
1. Percy Bates Cook.
5. Henry Joseph Dunn.
6. Frank Everson Loud.
7. Thomas Francis Fraher.
10. Grace Ford.
10. Lizzie Harriet Barnes.
10. Francis Patrick Monehan.
12. James Lewis Trainor.
12. John S. Fogg.
13. John Lowell Ela.
16. Henry Roberts.
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Date of Birth. June
16. Irene Estelle Belcher.
18. Percy Lincoln Bicknell.
20. Male child of James A. and Sarah R. Harris.
22. John McMagarty.
27. Ina Blake Irish.
28. Frank Leslie Davis. July
1. Mabel Lowe Spear.
3. Michacl Henry Coffee.
8. John McCue.
9. John Farmer Hopkins.
12. Fannie Bradford Dunbar.
13. John Burrell Gerrold.
13. Harry Whiting Carroll.
14. Daisy Roselyn Lewis.
15. Joseph Flannery.
16. Lillian May Loud.
19. Ada Agnes Tuch.
20. Fred Austin Thayer.
24. Franklin Freeman Bates.
27. Blanch Evelyn Mckenzie.
-. Kate Agnes Mitchell.
21. James Kenney. Aug.
1. Male child of Charles and Mary Groves.
2. Wallace P. Derby.
2. Wm. Francis Donovan.
2. Kate Elizabeth O'Brien.
3 Jennie L. Livingston.
4. Amey Gertrude Bates.
4. John Patrick Sullivan.
5. Jane Coughlan.
6. John Banard Coyle.
6. Florence Ethel Pratt.
7. John Thomas Connor.
8: Chas. Curtis White.
8. Sarah Humphry Hawes.
9. Chas. Garey Rowland.
Date of Birth. Aug.
10. Ida William Raymond.
12. John Edward Burr.
13. Fannie May Rowell.
15. Clarence Augustus Beard.
15. Geo. Washington Nash.
16. Geo. Ambrose Whelan.
18. Alloras Winslow Loud.
18. Alfred Herbert Dee.
18. Robert Francis McGrath.
21. Mary Elizabeth Sullivan.
21. Rose Emily Croker.
23. Patrick Cahill.
24. Lucy Ella Curtis.
25. Daniel Sullivan, Jr. Twins.
25. John Sullivan.
25. Ida Blanche Lowson.
26. John Hermann Loud.
26. Female child of Wm. H. and Julia L. Reed.
Sept.
1. Catherine O'Connors.
2. Catherine Louisa Kelley.
3. Geo. Willis McLeod.
7. Isabel McEvoy.
9. Eva Gertrude Hayden.
11. Male child of Adrianus and Elizabeth Denbræder.
12. Mary Evelyn Loud.
17. Mary Ellen Flynn.
18. Edith Annie Shurtleff.
20. Michael Doran.
21. Elizabeth Ellen Caulfield.
22. Harris Thadeus Godwin.
23. Walter Eugene Dunbar.
26. Henry Lovell Hayward.
26. Thos. Francis Smith.
26. Daniel Loud.
27. Arthur Clarence Newton.
28. John Milton Sewell.
28. Anna Frances Holbrook.
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Dato of Birth. Oct.
1. Aliston Albert Shaw.
3. Alice Maud Pierce.
8. Wm. Edward Tobin.
3. Grace Leonard Cain.
5. Female child of Bela and R. Maria Shaw.
6. Chas. Francis Coolidge,
6. Chas. Whitney Blanchard, Twins.
6. Theodore Ray Blanchard. )
7. May Lawrence Stoddard.
7. Male child of Thomas and Jane F. Blanchard.
9. David Young.
9. David Jobn Mayo.
11. Ann Fogarty.
13. Male child of William and Ellen Walsh.
14. Fred. James Blanchard.
14. Gertrude Marion Thayer.
15. Lucy Ann Clark.
17. Joseph Henry Crocker.
18. John White Hart.
19. Everett Chauncey Bumpus.
19. Daniel Bolan.
20. May Patience Hutchinson.
20. Ansel Otis Wing.
22. Ever Baker Clark.
23. Oliver Terry Wolfe.
23. Male child of Noah F. and Lydia E. Vining.
25. Patrick Curley, Jr.
25. Dennis Kieley, Jr.
28. Walter Richmond Burrell.
28. Eddie Sterling Porter.
30. Thos. Patrick Curren.
80. Wm. Daniel Fennell.
30. Edwin Hanley Furlong. Nov.
3. Alice Miller Holbrook.
4. Stephen Lewis Mckeever.
Date of Birth. Nov.
4. Mary Ellen Lane.
6. Lillian Isabella French.
7. Andrew Francis Coakley.
8. Nellie Etta Chase.
9. Margaret Agnes Highland.
10. Male child of G. W. and M. E. Blanchard.
11. Antoinette Maria Tirrell.
12. Emery Allen Blanchard.
15. Ruth Nichols Tower.
15. Caroline Elizabeth Boutin.
16. Susan Maria Shaw.
16. Leaon Elmer Tower.
21. Maurice Joseph Keohan.
22. Anna Augusta Bates.
23. Marion Linnell Higgins.
24. Henry Wm. Whiton, jr.
25. Joseph Francis Cooling.
26. Wm. Daniel Coleran.
26. Mary Young.
27. Ellen Terrance Sullivan.
27. Catherine Frances Smith.
29. Emily Jane Hallihan.
30. Mary Cross. Dec.
1. Female child of Thos. H., and Ellen M. Welch.
1. Howard Milton Tirrell.
5. Lester Elwood Bates.
5. Female child of Isaac H. and Mary E. Binney.
7. Mary Hayes.
7. Male child of E. W. and Georgianna Shackford.
7. Elmer Duncan Wass.
8. Winthrop Neal, { twins.
8. Geneva Neal,
9. Ellen Hanley.
9. Male child of Wm. H. and Hannah Turner.
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Date of Birth. Dec.
10. Catherine Collins.
10. Louise Frances Torrey.
10. Mary Ann McIsaacs.
10. Herbert Franklin Vining.
11. Jeremiah Buckley.
12. Antonio Santos Vieader.
12. Female child of Doctor Wm. . F. and Elizabeth Hatha- way.
15. Clementine Elizabeth Our.
16. Male child of Samuel J. and Annie E. Ross.
17. Female child of John and Mary A. Sidaway.
17. Ellen Londergan.
19. Dora Harriet Blackwell.
19. Mary Eleanor Healey.
20. Jennie Brooks, twins.
20. Harriet Brooks,
20. Averick White Hardwick.
Date of Birth. Dec.
21. Female child of Geo. W. and Rosabella C. Bates.
23. Female child of W. and Jean- nette Hefferman.
23. Male child of Howard M. and Mary A. Dow.
24. John Quincy Hunt.
26. Male child of Edward and Rosaina Madigan.
27. Lizzie Almira Ford.
27. Male child of Willard and Jane L. Atwood.
28. Male child of Geo. A. and Anna L. Dailey.
28. Mary Læocadie Gillardetz.
29. Thomas Francis Lynch.
30. Jennie Frances Allen.
31. Female child of Chas. S. and Lizzie Brooks.
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DEATHIS
Registered in the Town of Weymouth, for the Year 1873.
(The names enclosed in parenthesis indicate the Maiden Names.)
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
1874
Jan. 4 Charles L. Thompson 4 |Charles W. Thompson
6 22 Consumption .
Weymouth.
=
5 Joseph A. Boutin
5 20 Whooping Cough
10 Mary (Tower) Caffrey
32
6 Cancer
19 Pauline (Tufts) Blanchard
68
5
. Accident (fall)
22 Anu J. (Hunter) Mills
39 2 23 Small Pox
29 Hattie A. Chase
2
29 Lung Fever & Whoop'g Cou'h .
Feb.
7 Belinda (Hussey ) Humphrey 46
2 17
‹‹
10 Apphia L. (Foye) Holbrook 65
5 18 Frysipelas
66
11 Mary A. (Torrey ) Curtis .
48 6,23 Consumption
5 24 Whooping Cough
66
14 Martin Derby
79
6 10 Cancer
16 Mary E. (Harrington) Mitchell . 66
4 9 |Rheumatism
17 Mary Lynch .
31
· Consumption
17 John Hobart
17 Mary ( French) Lovell
68 11
1 Consumption .
20 Sarah H. (Sampson) Baker
40
4
. Cerebro Spinal Menengitis
21 Child of Samuel E. and Emma F. Burrell
1
Weymouth.
23 Asa T. Reed .
47
1 23 Congestion of Liver
24 Carrie L. Beane
8 16 Lung Fever ·
Mar.
2| Anna (Phipps) Jagoe 36
9 22 Cancer
7 Thos. Spear Reed
72
8 26 Pneumonia .
8 Sylvanus Bates
68
3
. Vaccination and Cold
8 Jacob N. Bates
56
6 16 Rheumatism of Heart
9 Elijah Bates
91
6 4 Cong. of Lungs and Liver
9 James Whitemore
40
.
15 Small Pox
12 Martin Joy
63 5 28 Paralysis .
12 Sarah E. (Pratt) Collier
34 11 22 Consumption
13 Mary A. B. Stack
9
1 11 Cerebro Spinal Menengitis
14 Charles H. Roberts
2
.
8 Membranous Croup
17 |Samuel Orcutt .
77 1 28 Cancer
21 Charles Kennedy
10 28 Lung Fever
78 1
8 Consumption
75
6
. Paralysis and Gangrene
51
3 14 Pneumonia and Mortification, 1 2 Consumption .
1
7 3 Pneumonia
2 11 | Small Pox
April 4 Charles E. Chamberlain
5 18 Dropsy on Brain
4 Betsey (Burrell) Blanchard
69 9 1 Paralysis of Brain
16
69|11|28 & Inflamm'n of Liver,
Randolph.
1 and 2 hours
1
Typhoid Fever
66
6 Alden W. Nash
2 26 Malignant Pustule
Stillborn
·
10
19 Dropsy on Brain
.
Consumption
3
7 Pneumonia
Cerebro Spinal Menengitis
2 12 Accident by Cars
17 Elizabeth (Ford) Martin
42
1 5 Consumption .
3
2 Burned
· Consumption
Ireland.
.
66 22 Male child of Hervey L. and Josephine A. Cushing
. Stillborn
Weymouth.
Cambridge. Stoughton. Medford. Ireland. Weymouth.
Maine. Rye, N. H. Weymouth. .6
=
England. Ireland. Weymouth.
Marshfield.
Ireland. Boston. Weymouth.
N. Bridgewater Weymouth.
N. Hampshire. Weymouth. 66
24 Lavinia (Holbrook) Stowell
36
5 Emerson Thayer .
6 Female twin children of Augus- tus W. and Eleanor F. Clapp,
6 Thomas H. Burnes .
10 38
8 Female child of Robert and W. Hunt
ucy
10 Susan M. Dunbar
10 Montgomery Emery
· 51
13 John Gutterson
78
66 15 Hannah (Hawes) Pratt . 50
15 John Dunn 45
Maine. N. Hampshire Weymouth. Ireland. Weymouth.
18 William P. Allen 3 21 Dennis Maddan 41
AGE.
Disease or Cause of Death.
Place of Birth.
6 22 "
13 Benjamin F. Robinson, Jr. .
22 Whooping Cough
22 Hannah (Reed) Pierce 23 James Moulton
23 Meribah (Orcutt) Whiting
25 Frank W. Maxim
29| Arthur L. Faulkner
Weymouth. Woburn. Weymouth.
4
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AGE.
Date of Death.
Nanie of Deceased.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
April 24|Female child of Samuel W. and Rachel E. King
29 Minot F. Pratt
4
May 1 Herbert A. Harding
24
2 Mary Bates
89
5 Joanna Howley
5
8 Ellen M. Cronin
4
·
1|13 Congestion of Brain
9 Peter Matthew
2
. 2 Cerebro Spinal Menengitis Heart Disease
12| Emily J. Healey
4
3 20
12 Edward Kennedy
3
.
25 Consumption
12| David Badger 33 4 12
1:
4 4 Convulsions
28
18 Consumption
14 Isabella (Mathewson) Patterson 18 Betsy L. (Lewis) Blanchard
82
6 . Paralysis of Brain
18 Mary E. Pratt
17
8
4 Epilepsy and Congestion
20| Female child of Patrick and Eliza Slattery
1 hour
23 Patrick Kiely
76
. Old Age
23 Gilman Thompson .
57 11 16 Paralysis .
25 Cylinda (Bates) French
42 2
. Congestion of Brain
66 29 Ella F. Crocker
17
6 7 Consumption
16
31 |Sally (Vining) Barnes
82
2 8 Old Age
June 3 Ella J. Blanchard
66
4 Thomas Fraha, 2d
26 .
39
11 James T. McGrath.
13 William Kelly .
19 Bethia B. Loud
59 5 10|Cancer
27 Laura L. Shaw
1 6 24 Cholera Infantum
27 Josiah Pray
54
5 4 Consumption
30|Elizabeth Tracy
1
6 7 Measles
30 Evelyn M. Osborne
14
1 7 Aneurism of Heart
30 | Minot Harrington 67
. 16 Paralysis .
July 6 Elmer E. Gardner
10 Jowialı Copeland
68
15 Mary J. ( Omera) Clapp
16 John Donovan . 30
17 |Harry F Bradford
2
7
18 Franklin W. Stoddard
20 11 4 10 9 14 Cancer
66 25 Laura A. (Spear) Crosby 28 Hellen W. Maryeth 29 James Kenney .
3 01 1 Diphtheria
.
4 21 Consumption
.
Malignant Tumor .
Weymouth.
Aug. 1|Silah F. Hollis .
1 95
.
28 Cholera Infantum
1 James Ahern
. Old Age
1 Michael H. Doran
1
8 8 Inflammation of Brain
2 Daniel Foley .
4 John M. Bailey
5 Rosalie S. Bayley 6, Samuel A. Ross
1 5 14 Infl. of Brain and Stomach 1 15 Cholera Infantum 1
= 7 Catharine Griffin 9 Mary D. Bearse
13
2 Typhoid l'neumonia
66 13 Clarence W. Gardner
10 19 Convulsions
14 Thomas Wall .
73 6 Old Age
3 7 Cholera Infantum
3 27 Consumption .
9
4 20 Typhoid Fever
1
·
29 Daniel Sullivan,
4
·
30] Betsey ( Hall) Tirrell .
7 Cancer
9
· Hip Complaint
31 Zichri Nash 177: 4 . Liver Complaint
66 Abington. Weymouth. 66
66 Ireland. Weymouth.
Canada. Weymouth. Nova Scotia. Weymouth. 66
Ireland. N. Hampshire. Weymouth.
Scituate.
Weymouth. 16
Ireland. Weymouth.
Braintree. Weymouth. ..
4 17 6 4 13 Membraneous Croup Typhoid Fever . Malignant Pustule ·
Consumption
N. Hampton. Maine. Ireland. Weymouth. 6
Maine. Hingham. Weymouth. Hingham.
Braintree. Ireland. Weymouth.
Davenport, Io. Weymouth.
. Diarrhea and Teething 9
18 Freddie V. Armington 21 Elizabeth W. Martin .
Melrose. Ireland. Weymouth. 6.
22 Jesse S. Spear . . 25 Jolin Sullivan,
Twins. ·
30 Edward F. Howne 6
Halifax. Weymouth.
Weymouth.
Stillborn 8 29 Cerebro Spinal Menengitis
8 14 Consumption Old Age
· 9
2 Cerebro Spinal Menengitis
66 8 George E. Jones
24
10 John Dailey
50
13|Terry O'Connors
15 11 12 Cerebro Spinal Menengitis · Sciatic Rlieumatism
9|Patrick Cronin .
. . Accidentally killed by Cars . 5 24 Typhoid Fever 9 4 Accident
13
45
29 Sally R. (Stowell) Kingman
30 Parker A. Ford
18
4 25 Diphtheria . 4|23 Cholera Infantum
Disease or Cause of Death.
Place of Birth,
A.H 2007.
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AGE.
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
Sept. 2 Lucinda ( Hunt) White 4 Caroline Wildes
55
1
.
16
.
.
.
8 14 Cholera Infantum
Edgar M. Ford .
25 8
Consumption .
N. Haven, Conn Fall River.
7 Emma F. Mills 21 7 11
39
5 11 Croup
5 22
Weymouth.
60 10 Richard F. Langford
3
6
. Consumption
61 17 Fannie Ryan .
7 6 Marasmus
66 18 Jennie E. Livingston 19 George Kelly
1
1 15 Consumption 1 10 Canker
..
66
23 Sally D. (Farren) Denton
75
8
Conn.
24 Susan Humphrey
27
4 17 Typhoid Fever
Weymouth.
=
24 Female child of Charles F. and Mary P. Ewell . 25 Rosalie A. (Stoddard) Lincoln 26 Alice Blanchard
27
9 27 Diphtheria
15
:
26 Marie F. (Burrell) Wildes 29
Oct.
2 Nellie H. Reed . 3 Ezra Bicknell
6 5 21 Diphtheria
Weymouth.
65 10 16 Spinal Paralysis
4 George F. Raymond
47 8 16 |Consumption
4 Grace E. Reed . .
3 7 12 Diphtheria 5 29 Old Age
4 Betsy (Loud) Torrey 86
7 Mary McGravy
23
. Consumption
Ireland·
7 Daniel Braekham 8 Jotham Shaw 10 Etta A. Reed
Weymouth. Quincy.
13 Male child of William and Ellen Walsh . · .
1 hour
Weymouth. Ohio.
66 13|Cerilla V. (Chapman) Adlington, 13|Patrick A. Cooling .
11: .
24
24 Henry W. Matthew
Weymouth.
25 Mary (Brown) Higgins 87 10 Old Age .
Wellfleet.
27 Elizabeth Lonergan
.
11 27 Consumption . 1 Conjestion of Liver 2
7 Typhoid Fever
2
8 Old Age
7 George A. Wheelan
2 27 Convulsions
66 8 Chloe (Pratt) Pool .
71 1 18 Fiberous Tumor
78
24 (Id Age
34 4 7|Consumption
1
1
15 Harrict N. Shaw .
41 6 27 Consumption
66 16 Simcon A. Smith
26 2 13
24 John Shaw
83 4 15 Old Age
3 13 Consumption
Maine.
Dec.
1 Female child of Thomas H. and Ellen M. Welch
Stillborn
.
4 Mary E. Koox
11 25 Scarlet Fever
6 Thomas Coy
55 ·
Accidentally fell overboard . 9|18 Spinal Complaint .
66 11 Thomas L. Friary
18 Female child of John and Mary A. Sidaway
32 10 15 Diphtheria 3
Virginla.
4:
26 Child of Edward and Rosina Madigan . . Female child of William' and 27
Stillborn
Weymouth.
Jane L. Atwood
27 Fred L. Cheek 27
7 1 Strangulated Hernia
England.
.
29
Accidentally killed (fail)
86
. 8|11 OM! Age
13
· 27
Consumption
· (Phthisis Pulmonalis Cholera Infantum 5 28 |Typhoid Fever 6 14 Consumption
Weymouth. Canada.
Weymouth.
66 28 Eddie Sterling Porter
30 Sophia (Holbrook) Pratt 86 22 91
Nov. 3 Joanna L. O'Connor 6 Nathaniel Seaward .
Wcymouth. N. Hampshire. Weymouth.
8 Elizabeth (Millet) Lawrence 9 William M. Rea
Salem. Cape Breton. Weymouth.
60 12 Lillian H. Blanchard
3
66 27 Fannie M. Rowell
·
27 Lydia F. (Judkins) Tibbetts 64 5 5 Dropsy .
Heart Discase
Weymouth.
Paralysis .
5 | Robert F. McGrath
19
..
6 Charles E. McGuire
8 Catherine ( Brett) Halnan 9 Francis H. Duval .
6
.
19 Sarah H. Cowing .
53 10 15 Cancer 8
Stillborn
Hingham. Weymouth.
8|24 3 12 Gangrene of Lungs
Place of Birth.
Disease or Cause of Death.
Weymouth. Weymouth. Ireland. Weymouth.
46 18 Joseph H. Reamey.
26
16| Napoleon Badger
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The foregoing reports of marriages, births, and deaths, are presented for the purpose of affording opportunity to parties interested to exam- ine the same and notifying the Town Clerk of any deficiency or inac- curacy that may appear. All errors or omissions in the records of previous years reported to the Town Clerk have been corrected. Marriages of several parties residents of this town have not been returned to this office, which accounts for any omission which may be noticed in the record of marriages. Of the two hundred and ninety- one births registered for the past year, ninety-four were children of foreigners, thirty-two were children of natives of Weymouth. Of the one hundred and seventy-six deaths recorded for 1873, forty-six were among persons of foreign parentage ; the excess of births over deaths for the year 1873 is one hundred and fifteen.
· Respectfully submitted.
FRANCIS AMBLER,
Town Clerk.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
FOR THE YEAR
1873 774.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
GENERAL REMARKS.
THE School Committee herewith submit to the town their Annual Report.
The town, at their meeting on the fourth day of March last, voted as follows : -
" To raise the sum of twenty-one thousand and five hundred dollars ($21,500) for the support of schools the ensuing year, and two thou- sand and five hundred dollars ($2,500) for the purchase and repairs of school-houses, to be expended under the direction of the School Committee."
" That the School Committee be instructed to employ a Superin- tendent of Schools for the ensuing year."
The whole number of scholars in town, between the ages of five and fifteen years, on the first day of May last, as reported by the asses- sors of the town to the committee, was nineteen hundred and ninety, an increase of fifty-five during the year.
The children were located as follows : -
In Ward One, 233; Ward Two, 564; Ward Three, 481; Ward Four, 339 ; Ward Five, 373.
The committee have purchased the basement of the Pond Street School-house, also land to enlarge the lot, have removed the house farther from the street, thoroughly repaired. the same, and finished both rooms for school purposes, thus making a neat and commodious house for two schools, at an expense of about $2,150.
In accordance with the vote of the town, the committee, at the commencement of the present school-year (July), employed Mr. A. G. Lewis as superintendent of the public schools, for the year ensuing, at a salary of $1,500 per year, provided his services were acceptable to the committee during the first term. Mr. Lewis entered npon the duties of his office at the time of the commencement of the schools (August 25), and we are happy to say that he has thus far fully met the expectations of the committee.
The views expressed in our former reports, in regard to the im- portance of having a superintendent of schools, are fully confirmed in our minds, and we therefore recommend the employment of a superintendent for the ensuing year.
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At the commencement of the school-year we organized temporarily a new primary school, of low grade and price, on Pond Street, in the new room, for the relief of the mixed school in the same house, which had become too large for one teacher's care and instruction.
Probably this school will be needed, and so will soon become one of the established primary schools of the town.
The number of scholars in the Adams School have so increased that there will very soon be a demand for the establishment of a primary school in that locality, which will be amply provided for as to school room, should the report of the joint committee on schools and school-houses be adopted.
Several of our school-houses are suffering for paint, and we are impressed that it is bad policy to allow the houses thus to be neg- lected, and therefore recommend such an appropriation for repairs as would enable the committee to paint at least one fifth of them each year.
The committee recommend that the town raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-two thousand and five hundred dollars for the support of schools, and twenty-five hundred dollars for repairs of school-houses.
The following reports of sub-committees give information in regard to the appearance of the schools as examined by said committees, at or near the close of the schools (June 27), for the school-year ending July, 1873.
Attention is also called to the report of the superintendent for information in regard to the schools, since their opening on the twenty· seventh day of August last.
JOHN W. LOUD, Chairman.
GRAMMAR DEPARTMENT.
ATHENS GRAMMAR has been under the instruction of Mr. F. M. Bennett, this being his second year. The school has labored under the disadvantage of being small in numbers and irregular in attend- ance. There has consequently been a lack of interest, and the result, tested by the examination, not wholly satisfactory. Owing partly to the size of the room and its bad acoustic qualities, but more to the scholars themselves, it has been difficult for the committee to hear the recitations. We may say that for several years this has been a prominent fault in this school. In reading and spelling good results
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have been accomplished. The arithmetic classes cannot be spoken of highly. Examples were performed, after a fashion, but principles did not seem to be understood. The grammar classes are entitled to credit. The geography classes and the class in history have done tolerably well.
ADAMS GRAMMAR has been under the instruction of Miss Eliza French. The committee have been fortunate in retaining her ser- vices so many terms. Considering the large number of scholars and classes in this school, the results accomplished are worthy of high commendation. General excellence in most departments of study was noticed. Special mention should be made of the first class in mental arithmetic, which for thoroughness and accuracy are equalled by few classes in the town. The reading for the most part was slow, intelligent, and especially correct in emphasis. The geography classes were creditable. The grammar classes were not up to the standard of those previously mentioned. Miss French has been assisted during the afternoon of each school-day by Miss F. E. Tirrell. She has performed her duties satisfactorily.
COMMERCIAL STREET GRAMMAR has continued under the instruction of Mr. Wm. H. Bartlett. It has labored under the disa lvantage of being composed (with the exception of the first class) of scholars sent up from the lower departments to fill the school up to the requisite number, and having among them some scarcely qualified for so high a grade. A great deal of ground in reading has been gone over. Fair results have been attained. The reading as a whole has not been up to a proper grammar school standard. The first class in the school has done finely. In mathematics they performed examples and enun- ciated principles correctly ; in grammar, mastered analysis and parsing to such an extent that new and difficult pieces were handled with ease, and in geography and history showed fluency and correct- ness. We cannot say as much of the other classes. The failures in these were numerous, and noticeable at the examination. These in a measure must be laid to the character of the school, as first stated. The teacher has worked hard. Some attention has been given to drawing.
Miss Ellen G. Parrott, assistant in the lower department, has been faithful and conscientious. She has had too many classes to accom- plish the best results. Her time has been too much divided and dis- tracted. A few of the classes were consolidated, but the number was not made sufficiently small to give time for patient drill.
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BROAD STREET GRAMMAR has been under the instruction of J. W. Armington. The previous reports of this school would answer in the main for this. In none of the departments of study can we bestow special commendation, judging from the examination alone. The reputation of the school, however, has been sustained. Teacher and scholar have worked harmoniously together during the year, and a good degree of interest in study has been secured. The teacher has been kind but firm in government, and the manners and morals of his scholars have not been forgotten. In instruction, the aim has been to develop original thought; and we think that if they had been left to work out solutions, give answers, and recite according to their own methods, the pupils would have pleased themselves and the committee better ; as it was, the failures were numerous. Drawing is success- fully pursued in this school.
Miss M. L. Flint, second assistant, has performed her duties in a creditable manner. She has employed the oral method with advan- tage. Classes in grammar, in particular, showed the success that can be attained among small scholars by this system. Arithmetic and geography classes excellent.
Miss A. A. R. Hays, first assistant, has labored with indomitable energy, as usual, and it is enough to say that the committee can find nothing in the school to criticise. We doubt, from the history of this school, since its duties were assigned to the present teacher, whether under similar instruction a dunce could be anywhere found.
PRATT GRAMMAR has remained under the instruction of Mr. J. H. Leonard, and we record with pleasure the great improvement in the school he has brought about. The scholarship has been of a lower standard than in our other grammar schools, on account of the fewer and lower graded schools to draw scholars from. The questions of teacher and committee were for the most part answered promptly and correctly, the explanations were tolerably good, the problems in many cases were worked systematically and neatly, and the reading was easier and more intelligible. The school gave evidence of hard work. The teacher has drilled his classes closely, and in that most difficult of all common branches, grammar, with the most gratifying results. As regards order, the school needs a sterner rule, as it was both noisy and inattentive.
MAIN STREET GRAMMAR, Miss S. L. Vining has had charge of during the year, and her industry and tact have kept the standard of the school high. The reading was unusually good. A few of the
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