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JOHN J. FORD, GEORGE H. WEBB, AZRO TURNER, Selectmen of Scituate.
BY-LAWS, TOWN OF SCITUATE.
ARTICLE I .- GENERAL CONDUCT OF TOWN AF- FAIRS.
SEC. I .- The financial year shall begin with the first day of January and shall end with the thirty-first day of Decem- ber.
SEC. 2 .- The annual meeting shall be held the first Mon- day in March.
SEC. 3 .- Town meetings shall be notified by posting an at- tested copy of the warrant, calling the same, in the Post Of- fices, at the Town house, seven days, at least, before the day appointed for said meeting, and by publication in a newspa- per, if any be published in the Town.
SEC. 4 .- At the annual meeting the reports of the Select- men, Overseers of the Poor, and all other Town officers, and all standing committees shall be first in order, after the choice of Moderator.
SEC. 5 .- All motions shall be submitted in writing at the discretion of the Moderator or Clerk.
SEC. 6 .- Twenty-five voters shall constitute a quorum for the raising and appropriating of money, under an article in the warrant providing for such action.
SEC. 7 .- The annual report of the Town officers shall be printed and distributed at least ten days before the Town meeting.
SEC. 8 .- The duties of all Town officers not specially pro -. vided for by law nor by these rules, shall be determined by the rules of parliamentary law contained in Cushing's Man- ual, so far as they are adapted to town meetings.
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ARTICLE II .- STREETS AND PUBLIC LANDS.
SEC. I .- The Selectmen or Road Commissioner may grant permits to any persons to build sidewalks in front of their own land, or on any of the streets or ways of the town, whenever the public safety will permit; which permit shall specify the width and mode of constructing the same.
SEC. 2 .- Whenever complaint shall be made to the Se- lectmen that the practice of coasting on any of the streets or sidewalks in the Town has become dangerous to the public safety, they may, if they shall judge it expedient, post up a notice, in some conspicuous place, on the side or corner of such streets, forbidding all persons to coast upon the same; and if any person shall be found coasting upon the same, after the posting of such notice, he shall pay a fine of not less than one dollar, nor more than five dollars, for every such offence, to be recovered of the offender, his parent or guar- dian.
SEC. 3 .- No person shall wheel, drive or draw any hand- cart, bicycle, hand sled or any other carriage of burden or pleasure-baby carriages excepted-nor permit any horse or other beast to go upon any sidewalk, nor to encumber the same with any boxes, barrels or any articles whatever to in- terfere with the convenient use of the same.
SEC. 4 .- Every owner or occupant of premises in the Town shall keep the same free from all nuisances and sources of filth, injurious to the public health and safety; and any nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness found on private property must be removed upon notice of the Board of Health, and within such time as it may designate. If upon notice from this board any premises are not put in proper sanitary condition, the same shall be vacated upon the or- der of the Board.
SEC. 5 .- No person shall place or cause to be placed, in any public or private way of the Town the contents of any sink, cesspool or privy,-nor place any dead animal, or dead
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animal or vegetable substance, rubbish or garbage in the same, except for the purpose of immediate removal there- from, under a penalty of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars for each offence.
SEC. 6 .- The words "public or private way" in the fore- going section shall be understood to include alleys, lanes, yards, beaches, or any other place where the presence of such refuse shall give offence to neighbors.
SEC. 7 .- One or more persons standing on any sidewalk or crosswalk, in such a manner as to obstruct a free passage for foot passengers, who shall not disperse immediately when ordered by any of the Selectmen, Police Officer or Con- stable of the Town, shall severally forfeit and pay a fine of three dollars for any violation of this By-law.
SEC. 8 .- No person shall use any indecent, profane or in- sulting language in any street or other public place in the Town, or near any dwelling-house or other building therein, or be or remain on any sidewalk or public passageway or way or ways to any public hall or church, court or public office, or upon any doorstep, portico, or other projection from any such house or other building, to the annoyance, disturbance or obstruction of any person lawfully entitled to pass or resort thereto ;- and no person shall sit upon any wall, fence, bank or doorstep facing on any public place, not being the owner or occupant thereof, without the express consent of such owner or occupant ;- nor shall any person, by any noise, gesture or other means, wantonly or designed- ly frighten or drive any horse in charge of another, in any street or public place in Town ;- and for any offence against this By-law, each offender shall pay a fine of five dollars.
SEC. 9 .- Any person who shall use any street or highway as a race course, or any person who shall furiously drive a horse or any other animal on any street or highway of the Town, shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars for each of- fence.
SEC. IO .- No person shall move any building through
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any street, lane or alley, without license from the Selectmen.
ARTICLE III .- MISCELLANEOUS.
SEC. I .- Whoever posts, affixes, or in any way attaches any poster, hand-bill, notice, advertisement or placard to or upon any wall, fence, building or structure not his own, with- out the permission of the owners or proprietors of such wall, fence, building or structure, shall forfeit and pay for each offence, a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars.
SEC. 2 .- Whoever paints, draws or stamps any letter, notice, figure, advertisement or marks upon any wall, fence, post, tree, building or structure not his own, without the per- mission of the owner thereof, or without said permission, mars, defaces or disfigures, in any way, such wall, fence, post, tree, building or structure, shall forfeit and pay for each of- fence a fine of not less than five, nor more than twenty dol- lars.
SEC. 3 .- Any persons congregating together in a disor- derly manner, who shall not disperse when ordered by any Constable or Police Officer; and any person or persons, con- gregating or loitering about in any school house yard, or out-building, not being a member of the public schools, who shall not immediately disperse and leave the premises, when ordered or requested to by any School Official, Constable or Police Officer of the Town, shall severally forfeit and pay a fine of five dollars for every such offence.
SEC. 4 .- No person in a nude state shall bathe or swim in any public or exposed place in the Town.
SEC. 5 .- It is ordered that it shall be the duty of the Con- stable and Police Officers to enforce the foregoing By-laws.
SEC. 6 .- These By-laws may be amended at any annual town meeting, articles for that purpose having been inserted in the Town warrant.
CHARLES MANSON, FRANCIS B. LEE, HENRY T. BAILEY,
Committee.
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MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF SCITUATE FOR THE YEAR OF 1898.
DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
RESIDENCE OF EACH.
AGE.
PLACE OF MARRIAGE.
BY WHOM MARRIED.
Jan. 11,
William W. Hunt, Jr., -
Scituate,
20
Scituate,
Rev. Seelye Bryant,
Scituate.
Jan. 30,
Irving E. Whiting,
Hanover,
22
Scituate,
Rev. F. H. Gile,
Scituate.
June 29,
Lucius L. Bonney,
Boston,
20
Norwell,
Rev. T. Thompson, Norwell. Rev. Albert D. Spaulding,
July
4,
Albert Bryant,
North Scituate.
July 28,
Fred T. Swift,
Falmouth, Mass.,
19
Scituate,
Rev. Joseph Cooper,
Scituate.
Sept. 4,
Samuel E. Hyland,
Cohasset,
41
Hingham,
Rev. John W. Day,
Hingham.
Sept. 14,
Stephen Litchfield, Jr.,
25
North Scituate,
Rev. Albert D. Spaulding, North Scituate.
Sept 21,
Charles Waldo Bailey,
24
Oct.
4,
Fred S. Whitten,
Laconia, N. H.,
29
Scituate,
Rev. Joseph Cooper,
Scituate.
Minnie O'Neil,
Scituate,
29
Oct. 27,
Elmer Sprague,
Hingham,
22
Scituate,
Scituate,
23
Nov. 22,
Mortimer D. Maxwell,
Brockton,
27
Norwell,
Ida P. Tilden,
Scituate,
23
Chelsea,
Nov. 23,
Thomas H. Harris,
Chelsea, Mass.,
22
Dec. 7,
Harry T. Stenbeck.
Scituate,
25
Scituate,
Rev. Watson Weed,
Mary W. Prouty,
25
Duxbury, Mass.
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Sarah F. Pratt,
25
Syracuse, N. Y.,
Rev. Walter J. Southam,
Syracuse, N. Y.
Mabel Elliot Smith,
Syracuse, N. Y.,
19
Ellen J. Grue,
Scituate,
Carrie B. Litchfield,
Scituate,
38
Scituate,
21
Hannah N. Clapp,
60
North Scituate,
42
Anna F. Burnham,
Scituate,
20
Grace M. Lee,
18
Mary Wyman,
Rev. Watson Weed, Duxbury, Mass. Rev. T. Thompson, Norwell. Rev. Joseph S. Sheerin, Chelsea, Mass.
Emma Alice Clapp,
23
Mary L. McElroy,
22
BIRTHS REGISTERED IN SCITUATE FOR THE YEAR 1898.
DATE.
NAME OF CHILD.
NAME OF PARENTS.
MAIDEN NAME.
January
18,
Edward Austin Litchfield,
George A. and Edith E., Thomas A. and Minnie D.,
Newcomb. Jellows.
20,
Gilbert Joseph Patterson,
22,
Ilegitimate,
D. Herbert and Mary E.,
Nott.
February
16,
Henry Grant, Doherty,
Charles E. and Lucy A.,
Spooner.
20,
Edward Everett Hyland,
Maurice and Mary A., William A. and Margaret E.,
McCarty.
March
6,
Helen Louise Brown,
Everett W. and Mary,
Burgoyne.
7,
Everett Franklin Osborne,
Lester and Fanny H.,
Bates.
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April
13,
Ella Eliza Ainslie,
Albert W. and Mary J.,
Emerson.
Everett L. and Clara E.,
Taylor.
May ..
20,
Estella Florence Fitts,
Henry T. and Florence E.,
Turner.
23,
George Francis O'Neil,
Henry P. and Mary,
24, Ruth Willard Cooper,
Joseph and Edith E.,
Parker.
29,
Annie Elizabeth Wilder,
Nathaniel and Elizabeth A.,
Fitts.
June
2,
Irene Frances Brown,
9,
Isadora Gevenia Gardner,
Bailey.
18,
Liba Ellsworth Litchfield.
Libe F. and Laura W., John C. an dJulia A.,
Mitchell.
27,
Helena Gertrude Murphy, Madeline Ellis, 7,
Walter B. and Harriet P.,
Kimball.
July
11, Howard Russell Lincoln Walker,
12, Julia Agnes Fellows,
25,
Prescott Alanson Damon,
S. Russell and Lotticella, Moses H. and Margaret E., Frank A. and A, Maude,
Tharby. Quinn. Litchfield.
18,
Mildred Bailey Agnew,
Samuel A. and Helen M.,
Bailey.
Jenkins.
24,
Clarence Wallace Clapp, James Daniel McIntyre,
James and Catherine A.,
Stewart.
26,
29,
Eben Everett Bearce, John Curran, 3rd,
John Jr. and Mary F.,
Ward.
8.
Clinton Webster Merritt,
Daniel and Catherine A.,
McCarty.
17,
Anna Mar, uerite Sweeney,
Henry A. and Mary A.,
Riordan.
26,
Myrtis Wilhelmena Wood,
Buckley.
28,
Kathleen O'Hern,
Elijah T. Jr. and Olive J.,
O'Donnell.
Elisha F. and Irene E.,
Jellows.
Edwin H. and Cecelia J.,
Sweetser.
10,
25, 26,
- - Brackett,
Lillian Webb,
27, 28,
Arthur Tilden Peverly, Marion West Brown, Sara Thaxter Jenkins,
28,
29,
Olive Gertrude Trommer, Dorothy Emmons Bryant,
Seelye and Kate W., Oscar I. and Delia,
Sampson.
Ritchie.
=
25,
Isabelle Clare Jenkins,
Warren W. and Mary J.,
October 1,
9,
11, Helen Irene Vickery,
17, Phebe Esther Richardson,
17, Muriel Dorretta Seaverns,
25, Morris Hall Bailey,
Elsie Caroline Litchfield,
Abbott and Charlotte E.,
Leavitt.
November 12, 1896
March,
8,
Frederic Bradford Jenkins,
Warren W. and Mary J.,
Hollenbeck. Renwel: LA RUEE Clapp. Cottle. Damon. Smith. Skeele.
September 2, 3, 14,
Horace Colson Knight,
Charles G. and Eliza A.,
Edward J. and Delia, Charles F. G. and Ellen A.,
Gordon L. and Gertrude,
Tuhey. O' Brien. Bedell. Mc Donald. Stickle.
William P. and Sarah M.,
Ernest R. and Clara M.,
Voss.
Albert E. and Marion B.,
Hall.
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Charles J. and Penola,
Henry and Mary W., Ernest T. and Lizzie B., Percival S. and Hattie F., George C. and Etta B., Charles H. and Cora F.,
Elleanora Finnie,
Margaret Grace Graham, Edith Bernice Andrews,
DEATHS RECORDED IN SCITUATE FOR THE YEAR 1898.
DATE.
NAME.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
AGE.
PARENTS' NAMES.
Y.
M.
D.
Apoplexy,
85
10
Leonard and Betsey.
Jan. 3,
Thomas Clapp,
Acute Mania,
35
11
Alfred and Abigail Clapp.
Feb.
2.
Mary L. Newcomb,
47
6
5
William and Lydia C.
7,
Arthur E. Ferguson,
Appendicitis,
29
29
Wallace and Helen Willcutt.
66
11,
Ella Frances Varney,
Disease of Heart,
50
9
7
Frederick and Cynthia Cushing.
24,
Edward Everett Hyland,
Infantile,
-
3
Charles E. and Lucy A.
Mar. 3,
Peter Murphy,
Disease of Heart,
64
1
David and Eliza C.
April
5,
Elvira J. Webb,
Nephritis,
72
6
Calvin and Mary Perry.
Fracture of Skull,
45
8
Richman and Eliza C.
22,
Henry H. Sylvester,
Old Age,
89
9
9
66
25,
George Mann,
74
10
9
Joseph and Lydia.
May
3,
Hosea B. Mott,
82
7
15
Simeon and Jane B. Bates.
66
27,
Christiana Varrell,
Neuralgia of Heart,
81
9
1
Isaac W. and Mary L.
66
30,
Jessie L. Irving,
79
6
26
Jonathan and Sally Green.
June 10,
12,
Amos Towne,
John and Hannah Roche.
66
20,
Hannah Wherety,
2
Conrad -- Steiger.
66
26,
Mary A. Newell,
84
Patrick-Fallon.
July
14,
Susan Rogan, .
4
14
30,
Mildred B. Agnew, Thomas Halligan,
Apoplexy,
70
Aug. 6,
7,
Francis Dwyer,
Cholera Infantum,
-
3
14
James W. and Margaret.
14,
Esther G. Ellms,
36
5
John S. and Cordelia A.
66
19,
Edward H. Taylor,
Ulceration of Stomach,
79
5
Ichabod and Mary.
Natural causes, sudden,
68
-
30
Luke and Alice.
Sept.
6, 7,
Beulah D. Bates,
Cancer,
-
4 °
4
George H. and Mary.
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General Debility,
77
6
Isaiah and Hannah.
17,
Mary H. Smith,
Newcomb W. and Abigail Stevens.
Tuberculosis,
11
Abigail W. Damon,
Dropsy,
Peter and Sarah.
Bright's Disease,
78
Bright's Disease,
51
1
Apoplexy,
77
Old Age,
Samuel A. and Helen M. Bailey.
Infantile,
8
-
Job L. and Emeline F.
Cholera Infantum,
Accidental,
30,
Samuel W. Cook,
Luke Hall,
Epilepsy,
10,
Mary W. Prouty,
Phthisis,
73
John and Mary.
11,
David Sanford Jenkins,
19,
William F. Barrell,
Abel and Lillis.
Chronic Cystitis,
Pneumonia,
Sept. 8, 15,
1 William C. Manson, James Connors,
15, George F. O'Neil,
23, Deborah Sylvester,
24, Mary E. Graham,.
66
27,
25, Mary T. Bearce, Harriet Ellis, Levi Newcomb, Silas Pierce, A bel Sylvester, Langdon W. Cook, Thomas O. Bailey,
Nov. 15, 23, 27,
66
27,
Carl Flater, Edwin B. Patterson,
66
Andrew Ellingsen,
Unknown, Unknown,
Unknown,
27, 7, Laura Alice Chandler,
Bright's Disease, Exhaustion, Cholera Infantum, Old Age, Bronchitis,
76
1
Nehemiah and Mercy.
29
1
24
John and Mary.
-
3
-
Henry P. and Mary. Bartlett and Deborah Briggs.
91 1
8
1
4
1
10
Old Age,
Chronic Diarrhoea,
76 72 88 51
2 3
18 Elijah and Lucy P. Abel and Lillis. Samuel W. and Sarah. Noah C. and Mary A,
Accidental Drowning,
37
26
.
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Phthisis,
38
6
21 James B. and Laura A. Totman.
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Edward J. and Delia. Ebenezer and Elvira. Daniel and Cynthia Ellis.
Neurasthenia,
30 91
16 26 1 23 Levi and Joan.
Oct. 1, 15, 27,
Valvular Disease of Heart, Chronic Cystitis, Cerebral Apoplexy, Paralysis,
68 63
Malinda F. Wilbur,
27, ,
27, 27, 27,
Dec.
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THE FOLLOWING WERE BROUGHT TO TOWN FOR INTERMENT.
DATE.
AGE.
PLACE OF DEATH.
NAME.
Y.
M.
D.
Jan.
28,
Wilbur F. Nott,
33
9
6
Braintree.
Feb.
2,
John J. Silvia,
73
Cohasset
May
5,
Lois G. Stearns,
78
-
Boston.
6,
Coleman Tilden,
88
1
10
Stoneham.
June
7,
Sarah E. Ward,
4
5
-
Boston.
6.
11,
Margaret Butler,
33
10
Lynn.
August
2,
Mary H. Monroe,
88
11
23
Somerville.
Sept.
25,
Elizabeth S. Newcomb,
72
8
3
Malden.
Oct.
15,
Edith H. Bryant,
19
3
24
Holyoke.
Nov.
24,
Lucy A. Dunbar,
83
3
-
Boston.
SUMMARY.
Number of births in Scituate for the year 1898,
46
Males, Females, 27
19
Whole number recorded for the year,
47
Number of marriages recorded,
13
Number of certificates issued,
13
Number of deaths for the year, Males, 28
49
Females, 21
Brought to Town for interment,
13
Whole number recorded for the year,
62
Number of dogs licensed for the year 1898,
I36
Males,
124
Females,
12
Amount received for the same,
$308.00
CHARLES MANSON,
Town Clerk.
SCITUATE, Dec. 31, 1898.
-
-
Brockton.
13,
Aurelia S. Row,
48
Boston.
8,-
Gertrude F. Lane,
-
30,
Eliza Green,
64
Marshfield.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF SCITUATE
FOR THE
Year Ending December 3I
1898
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PLYMOUTH THE MEMORIAL PRESS 1899
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
The School Committee of Scituate hereby present their annual report to the citizens of the Town :-
The general progress of the schools has been seldom if ever more satisfactory. Our corps of teachers has been un- broken with one exception, and the result of good work on the part of both teachers and pupils is easily apparent on a visit to the schools. The registers show a large number of visits during the year, and it is gratifying to observe the good feeling existing between the patrons of the school and the teachers and scholars.
We cannot overestimate the importance of our schools, and their influence upon the community. Everything should be adopted that promotes their success, and every- thing avoided that would mar their prosperity. Parents, teachers, school officers, and all others should be united, and zealously labor to advance their interests, remembering that to the common schools we owe in part a true prosperity.
In the early part of the year it seemed advisable to in- crease the salaries of some of our teachers, which the Com- mittee felt they could do under the present appropriation; con- sequently the High School assistant received an addition of $50, making her salary $500 per year. The salary of the East Grammar principal was raised to the same amount; three primary teachers were given one dollar per week, and five others fifty cents per week additional. We hope an- other year to give all the primary teachers the same.
The smallest primary school is the Highland street, which the Committee thought at one time they should be obliged to close, but as the parents strongly objected, and as the chil- dren were so young, transportation would be necessary, it
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was decided to keep it open for the present-we would say here that a teacher can teach with far better results a school of thirty scholars than a school of ten. Children stimulate each other and accomplish more in classes of proper size. It is therefore of great importance that the small schools be consolidated, whenever it is practicable to do so.
We have had four trainers in the Hatherly School this year, and Miss Blanche Gardner, a recent graduate of our High School, has been observing in the East Grammar since September.
At the Town meeting in March, the sum of $200 was voted to employ a teacher of drawing. The committee ac- cordingly engaged Miss Sara T. Bailey, a graduate of the Normal Art School. Miss Bailey had previously given drawing lessons in the High and Hatherly Schools and continued to give them in those schools only until the close of the school year in June. In September, she was regular- ly employed in all the schools, and we feel she has been suc- cessful in her work-we shall ask for an appropriation the coming year to make drawing a permanent study, as re- quired by law.
Miss Estella Litchfield has been for two years teacher of vocal music, which has now become one of the regular studies. The teachers have cheerfully co-operated with her, and the scholars generally have shown an increasing interest and a noticeable improvement in this branch of study.
The High School graduating exercises were held as usu- al in the Town Hall, Friday evening. June 24. A varied and interesting programme, consisting of essays, orations, recitations and music by the Apollo Quartette was given, and was well received by a large audience. A handsome picture of Niagara Falls was presented by Gustavus Pratt in behalf of the class of '98 to the school, and accepted by Sara L. Burleigh, 99. Mr. Joy K. Gannett, Jr., of the School Committee awarded the diplomas to the following gradu- ates : Percy Bryant Clapp, Richard Clapp, Louis Edward
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Cole, William Rogers Damon, Blanche Cole Gardner, Clif- ton Bates Lee, Alice Francis Manson, Lucy Margaret Mitchell, Velma Warren Norris, Gustavus Pratt, John En- sign Prouty, Mary Augustus Schenck, Ella Maria Sea- verns, Elsie Evelyn Turner.
The graduating exercises of the East Grammar School took place in the school room, Friday afternoon, June 17, and those of the Hatherly Grammar School in the Baptist church on the evening of the same day. The large and attentive au- dience at both these graduations gave evidence of the inter- est taken in these schools by the townspeople. The essays and declamations were well delivered. and the singing by the pupils showed that they had profited by the drill given them by the teacher and supervisor of music. A fine portrait of Whittier was presented by the graduates to the East Gram- mar School, and an engraving of Longfellow by the class of '98 to the Hatherly Grammar School. The names of those receiving diplomas were as follows. From the East Gram- mar : Alexander Otis Anderson, Francis Joseph Bishop, Margaret Helen Corbett, Annie Doherty, John Francis Dris- coll, Mary Jane Gillis, Abbie Cecila Gearin, Ann Francis Hughes, Edith Adelaide Manson, Margaret Jane O'Neil. Catherine J. Welch. From the Hatherly Grammar : Israel Merritt Barnes, Arthur James Dalby, Daisy L. Graves, Flor- ence Bates Lincoln, Lucinda Valma Litchfield, Archie Gor- don Litchfield, Belva Cleveland Merritt, Harold Atkins Mer- ritt, Ibella Frances Mott, Lilla Catherine Nichols, Inez May Owens, Fred Rowley Park, Carleton Pratt, John Henry Spencer, George Fenton Varney, Alice Marsh Vinal.
By a vote of the Town, the School Committee were re- quested to suggest some plan for better accommodations in the East Grammar School, and were instructed to report at the next March meeting. The committee have considered plans for enlarging the present building, also for building a new one, but as either plan would involve the outlay of quite a large sum of money, owing to the serious loss which has
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fallen upon the Town by the severe storm in November, they deem it advisable to postpone any action in the matter the en- suing year.
This school has not been as crowded as last year, never- theless, more commodious quarters will have to be provided in the near future.
The Brook street school house was put in fairly good con- dition during the summer vacation. Some necessary re- pairs were made on the outside; the ceiling of the school room whitened, walls tinted, entry painted, and new shades. furnished. It now presents a neat appearance.
The walls of the High School cellar were pointed, and the floor cemented two and one-half inches thick with Portland cement in July, by the late Langdon W. Cook, at a cost of $135. The Town raised and appropriated $150 for the same.
The sum of $250 was raised and appropriated to enlarge the Hatherly School lot, and fence the same. About one- third of an acre was purchased of Mrs. Fanny D. Wills for $65, and later Billings H. Merritt was paid $166.31 for fenc- ing the same.
Two hundred dollars was also raised for grading the grounds according to plans and specifications issued by the: School Committee.
The following bids were received :-
Langdon W. Cook,
$240.00
David L. Studley,
197.50
Joseph H. Harvey, 185.00
Pearl Vickery,
181.55
Fred D. Graves,
181.00
Thomas Mulcay,
I33.00
Mr. Mulcay's bid was accepted. The work was com- menced, but is still unfinished, and no money has been paid. on this account.
The Committee recommend the coming year for generali
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school purposes, $7,500, and $250 for the salary of the Su- perintendent.
We refer to the Superintendent's report for a more de- tailed condition and progress of the schools.
Respectfully submitted, JULIA E. WEBB, CLARA M. SKEELE, JOY K. GANNETT, JR., School Committee.
SCITUATE, Dec. 31, 1898.
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SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR 1899.
WINTER TERM.
SPRING TERM.
FALL TERM.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
High School,
Jan. 2
Mar. 24
Apr. 3.
June 23
Sept. 5
Dec. 22
Other Schools,
Jan. 2.
Mar. 17
Apr. 3.
June 16
Sept. 11
Dec. 15
HOLIDAYS .- February 22, April 19, May 30. September 5, one day of Marshfield Fair, Thanksgiving and the following Friday.
SCHOOL STATISTICS.
SCHOOLS.
NAMES OF TEACHERS.
Greatest No. enrolled
during any one Term.
Membership.
Average
Average
Per cent.
High
Julius N. Mallory,
58
54.
50.
93
East Grammar
Clara L. Bedelle,
80
67.9
61.5
91
Hatherly, 7 and 8 Grades .
Edith C. Holland,
30
24.8
23.6
95
Hatherly, 5 and 6 Grades .
Hattie M. Damon,
37
33.8
32.3
95
Hatherly, 3 and 4 Grades .
Sarah F. Pratt,
49
37.4
36.3
97
Hatherly, 1 and 2 Grades Brook Street .
Gertrude Gardner,
37
30.
28.
93
Willow Street
Margaret Sullivan,
28
23.7
22.3
94
High Street
Josephine G. Ward,
27
21.8
18.7
86
Highland Street
Josephine I. Barry,
14
12.7
11.7
92
South Street .
Lilliette C. Jenkins,
23
16.7
15.2
92
1
41
37.6
35.8
95
Attendance.
Effie L. Kellogg, Ass't,
Grace L. Otis, Ass't,
Carrie W. Litchfield,
Sarah M. Kane,
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT.
To the School Committee :-
It gives me pleasure to submit to you my fourth annual re- port. It was my intention to include in it, in a tabulated form, the individual statistics of the attendance of all the pu- pils in town. But space forbids it, as such a record would require more of it than all commonly allotted to the Super- intendent. I wished to do this because I thought that every parent would read at least that part of such a record, which concerned his own children. Some I know would be proud to learn of the record made by their children, and justly so, for many have given evidence of effort worthy of emulation.
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