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H. F. Wild, pork, 13.12
Team, labor, and stone,
I22.II
976.39
Net cost of Almshouse, $966.25
School Account.
DR.
To balance, Feb. 16, 1888,
$1246.80
Appropriation,
6500.00
Cash State Treasurer, school fund,
383.1I
County dog יי
360.00
Of I. N. Babbitt, Jr., overpaid,
4.82
$8494.73
CR.
By amount paid teachers,
$5053.74
Janitors,
872.25
Incidentals,
506.63
School book agency,
316.88
Fuel,
403.80
Truant officers,
11.75
Balance to new account,
I329.68
$8494.73
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Teachers' Pay Roll.
Z. W. Kemp,
$1147.49
Clara A. Bourne,
447.50
Annie H. Delano,
413.75
Mary W. Leymunion,
370.00
Lucy F. Winchester,
350.00
Ellen H. Akin,
344.00
Jessie B. Kemp,
312.00
Ida E. Cundall,
296.00
Lillian E. Page,
281.00
Dora Alden,
272.00
Lena A. Chubbuck,
180.00
Mary E. Haney,
160.00
Lucia Allen,
160.00
Flora M. Stewart,
142.00
Della Libby,
127.00
A. M. Mackenzie,
35.00
M. Nye,
16.00
$5053.74
Janitors' Pay Roll.
Hiram T. Lumbert,
$670.00
Thos. N. Thacher,
72.25
Benj. T. Randall,
64.25
Abbie Sherman,
26.00
Myra F. Ring,
13.75
Maria Skiff,
13.75
Herbert Bump,
12.25
$872.25
Support of Schools in Detail. Incidentals.
Paid Highway Dept., dirt for Rogers school lot, $150.00
Mrs. Geo. F. Drew, transporting children,
55.80
I. N. Babbitt, Jr., supplies, 28.02
Chas. D. Sherman, repairs and labor, 26.75
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H. H. Hathaway, painting, $23.66
B. F. Cottelle, tuning piano, 18.00
Wm. A. Tillinghast, shingles, 16.25
Chas. W. Knight, printing and supplies, 13.79
Jas. B. Hazzard, repairs,
14.04
Emily F. Sherman, census school children, 12.00
John S. Mills, labor,
10.00
D. C. Potter, state reports and expenses, 7.85
L. M. Snow, chemicals, 7.45
Hatch & Co., express, 7.25
R. A. Dunham, teams, 6.75
E. Manchester, Jr., carting, 5.95
Sullings & Kingman, truck, 5.50
Henry W. Tripp, repairs, 5.50
J. W. L. Hillman, supplies, 5.42
Job. C. Tripp, state reports, 5.00
George W. King, labor, 5.00
Fredk. Jenney, supplies and expenses, 4.80
Fairhaven Iron Works, supplies, 4.70
George H. Freeman,
4.33
Bliss & Nye,
4.00
R. H. Taber, 4.00 .6
Edwin Blossom, labor,
3.60
F. M. Bates, repairs,
3.50
Thomas Hersom, soap,
3.38
George H. Tripp, expenses,
3.20
A. D. Bourne, repairs,
3.00
Mary S. Lannon, cleaning,
3.00
Abbie Sherman, . 6 3.00
John W. Brawley, rolling lawn, 3.00
P. P. Jenney, sharpening lawn mower, 2.66
F. A. Keith, carting, 2.49
H. S. Hutchinson, supplies, 2.45
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Benj. T. Randall, labor, $2.25
Oscar T. Perkins, fertilizer, 2.10
George B. Hathaway, writing di- plomas, 2.00
James M. Lawton, repairing drum, 2.00
Wood, Brightman & Co., supplies, 1.96
C. D. Waldron, printing, 1.75
George R. Valentine, repairs,
1.50
R. Sherman, supplies,
1.40
D. C. Heath & Co., supplies,
1.15
A. J. Barney, repairs,
1.00
George S. Bowen, broom,
1.00
Fredk. Allen, repairs to clock,
.75
Wm. F. Nye, merchandise, .60
Taber Bros., supplies, .60
Ebenezer Howland, supplies, .58
Z. W. Kemp, supplies, .30
International Express Co., .20
George J. Dodge, repairs, .20
C. R. Sherman, supplies,
.20
$506.63
School Book Agency.
D. C. Heath & Co.,
$91.71
J. L. Hammett,
54.II
Holden Book Cover Co.,
46.50
F. M. Ambrose,
34.80
H. S. Hutchinson & Co.,
32.26
Wm. Ware & Co.,
18.58
Clark & Maynard,
9.17
Cowperthwait & Co.,
8.81
D. Appleton & Co.,
5.60
Thompson, Brown & Co.,
5.34
Raub & Co.,
2.70
Leach, Shewell & Sanborn,
2.40
Harper Bros.,
4.20
Boston School Supply Co.,
.70
$316.88
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Fuel.
David Duff & Son, coal,
$379.85
Chas. F. Howard, wood,
3.00
Henry T. Howard, wood,
14.65
John W. Flamburg, charcoal.
6.30
$403.80
Truant Officers.
Wm. H. Dwelley,
$9.00
E. F. Bryant,
2.75
$11.75
Present town debt,
$13,000.00
Balance incidental account,
$6.42
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poor account,
229.76
school account,
I329.68
Balance in Treasury, $1565.86
Your Selectmen respectfully submit for your considera- tion the following list of appropriations for the expenses for the next year :
Highways,
$3,000.00
Schools,
5.000.00
Town debt and interest.
2,910.00
Poor,
2,500.00
Salaries,
1,200.00
Incidentals,
1.000.00
Lighting streets,
750.00
Fire department,
700.00
$17,060.00 JOHN I. BRYANT, JOHN H. HOWLAND, WM. P. MACOMBER,
Selectmen. FEBRUARY 18. 1889.
I hereby certify that I have examined the accounts of the Tax Collector, Treasurer, and Selectmen of the Town of Fairhaven, for the year ending Feb. 15, 1889, and believe them to be correct.
G. E. DEAN, AUDITOR.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
Town of Fairhaven.
1888.
NEW BEDFORD : MERCURY PUBLISHING COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1889.
REPORT.
TO THE CITIZENS OF FAIRHAVEN :
Your Committee herewith presents its annual report of the condition of the schools in this town.
The Committee organized in March, 1888, with the choice of J. W. L. Hillman as chairman and G. H. Tripp as secretary. The following sub-committees were appointed : Supplies -Messrs. Potter and Tripp; High School- Messrs. Tripp and Potter ; Rogers School-Messrs. Hill- man and T. A. Tripp ; Rural Schools-Messrs. Sherman, Potter, and Jenney.
It has been the purpose of the Board to conduct the affairs of the department with as few changes as need be to secure the best results and promote the well-being of the schools. Perhaps the most important action has been the change of the course of study to adapt it to a twelve years' course. It was the unanimous opinion of the Com- mittee that twelve years of school life, extending from five to seventeen, or six to eighteen years, was the right term of years for children to pass in school,-was all the interests of the town at present demanded. A twelve years' course completed is better than an unfinished one of thirteen years. Not one child in fifty completes his school life by gradua- tion from the High school. It was believed that with a course of study properly graded, more scholars would stay
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to complete their studies ; more would get the advantage of High School work ; more boys fifteen and sixteen years of age might be kept in school to secure some training for business and future life work, if the course were thus short- ened.
It was found in reviewing the course of study that it was not lived up to in all respects, that certain work laid down for certain grades was not taken up in those grades, and that a readjustment of the plan was desirable, even impera- tive. This has been accomplished with the purpose of effecting a proper gradation of work from the lowest grade to the highest, so that the whole scheme in our schools should present one consistent whole, with no violent transi- tion from one class to the next. It may require time to harvest all the good results from this action, but we firmly believe the step to be a wise one, and that it is already proving to be so.
A new book in English grammar has been introduced during the year, which has been universally commended, and has proved an extra stimulus towards securing good work in that study.
A book on elementary science has been adopted as a supplementary reading book in the Rogers School, and is giving satisfaction and supplements the regular course most profitably, giving the children a taste of science work with which they can become more familiar when they advance to the High School. In that school the study of arithmetic is made compulsory once a week through the course. It is essential that the principles and applications of arithmetic should be reviewed constantly during school life, so that pupils on leaving the High School need not · fail to meet and answer all the simple requirements of actual every-day business. In the matter of optional studies at the High School, especially the study of Latin, the Committee feels that, while every facility should be granted
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to our scholars in the study of the elective branches, no pupil should be allowed to choose such study without due consideration and the express permission of his parents. It may make a difference to the whole future career of a boy or girl, and it should not be taken without careful determination. Again, to pursue the study of a foreign language for a few months as a novelty, and then to give it up, or desire to, is demoralizing to the spirit of study. So the Committee has demanded written requests signed by a parent of each pupil who takes an optional study, such study to be taken in addition to three regular English studies.
The appliances for studying the sciences are better at the High School than they have been for some years, and there seems to be nothing to prevent very good results in that department.
In regard to the care of school books, it may be well to say a few words. The books on the whole are used with very good care, but the individual teacher should examine all text books regularly, at stated times, to note their con- dition, that, with the present system of charging off the books to each pupil, the responsibility for misuse may be fixed and any wilful defacement be properly punished.
The danger of the spread of disease through the mis- cellaneous handling of books, is perhaps no greater than in a public library. Of course, any book of which there was any suspicion of taint would be destroyed.
All the implements of education are now free to the pupils of our schools, and, with pleasant surroundings and good instruction, there is every opportunity for the youth of this town to secure a good education. But as the estima- tion in which we hold a privilege is sometimes gauged by its cost of attainment, so there is some danger lest the value of an education be cheapened by being absolutely free. Learning is worth a struggle, which develops strength.
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In the Rogers School the charge of the building has been placed in the hands of Miss A. H. Delano, with good results, and with a corps of faithful assistants good work is being done.
The Primary department of this school has suffered several changes during the year. Miss L. A. Chubbuck was made principal of the Primary School, but a more lucrative position was offered her, and the Committee, although most highly appreciating her services for the school, could not oppose her acceptance. She deserved a higher position and won it.
The Committee were fortunate in securing the services of Miss Stuart, a bright and active Normal school graduate, recommended by the principal in the highest terms. But a city Superintendent was again on our track, our nursery of teachers was again invaded, and Miss Stuart was taken away at the close of the term. Again the Committee were fortunate in obtaining Miss Mackenzie, of Taunton, who is doing excellent work.
The influence for good of the noble school building is still potent and increasing in educational value as the years pass. Last year the report chronicled the dedication of a Rogers hall : this year we have to allude to the fitting up of a play ground opposite the school premises, for the children of the school,-another benefaction of Mr. Rog- ers, who is making his gift to the town so complete in all respects.
There is imperative need of a sidewalk around the Rog- ers School and the town should authorize the Selectmen to curb in the sidewalk at once.
At the High School the stoves are nearly past service and it would be good economy to replace them with a furnace.
On the whole, the condition of the school buildings is quite satisfactory. Some needed repairs have been made at Oxford and Sconticut Neck, and something will have to be done at New Boston.
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During the Fall term the school at Naskatucket has been discontinued and the pupils taken into the Oxford and New Boston schools, and we think with good results. One good school of thirty pupils can do vastly better work than two schools of half the number each. Besides the saving to the town, it is better to combine. It is rarely the case that a school of twelve pupils will compare favor- ably with one of thirty or forty. There is, or ought to be, a contagion of enthusiasm in numbers. The distance has not proved a bar, except in the case of two families, whose children have been transported by arrangement with the parents.
It has been the general purpose of the Board to endeavor to adjust the salaries as seemed most fair and expedient. Of course it is impossible for our town to compete with cities or large towns in pecuniary inducements to teachers, but it is wise economy to pay teachers with some degree of liberality ; to pay fair wages for good work,-wages suf- ficient to make them contented, and to secure the best results. Frequent change of teachers is extremely detri- mental to the interests of a school.
With the balance, about $730, which will be to the credit of the Committee on town meeting day, the Committee ask for an appropriation of $6000 for the support of schools . for the ensuing year, against $6500 appropriated last year. While the balance on February 9, when the accounts were made up, was $1329.68, the balance March 4 will be $730.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Balance from 1887,
$1246.80
Appropriation for 1888,
6500.00
County fund,
360.00
State fund,
383.II
Total receipts,
$8489.91
Teachers' pay roll,
$5061.74
Janitors' pay roll.
874.25
Fuel,
403.80
Incidentals,
495.05
School book agency,
316.39
Truant officer,
9.00
Total expenditures.
7160.23
Balance, February 9,
$1329.68
Respectfully submitted.
J. W. L. HILLMAN, R. SHERMAN, D. C. POTTER, . T. A. TRIPP, FRED'K JENNEY, G. H. TRIPP.
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HIGH SCHOOL.
TEACHERS.
Wages per
Whole No.
enrolled.
member-
ship.
Average
attend-
ance.
Per cent. of
attend-
ance.
Number of
weeks.
Z. W. Kemp, Principal.
$100
44
42.7
40.3
94.3
Winter ,
12
100
39
37
34.7
93.7
Spring,
13
110
56
54.2
51.8
95.5
Fall, Winter,
15
January 2 to March 23. April 2 to June 29. September 3 to December 14.
C. A. Bourne, Asst.
40
40
Spring, Fall,
13
50
15
month.
TERM.
Average
6
12
ROGERS SCHOOL.
TEACHERS.
month.
enrolled.
membership.
attendance.
scholarship.
No. of
weeks.
Z. W. Kemp, Principal to June 29, 1888. Salary $200 per school year.
Wages per
Whole number
Average
Average
Average
Winter, Spring, Fall,
12
January 2 to March 23. April 9 to June 29. September 3 to December 14.
Room 8, A. H. Delano,
$40
21
21
19.7
93.8
Winter,
12
40
23
22.4
21.6
96.4
Spring,
12
A. II. Delano, Prin.,
40
36
34.5
33.2
96.2
Fali,
15
Room 7, L. F. Winchester,
32
31
29.4
28
95.8
Winter,
12
32
32
31
30.3
97.7
Spring, Fall,
15
Room 6, M. W. Leymunion,
32
35
32.4
29.5
91
Winter,
12
40
35
28.3
25.3
89.3
Spring,
12
L. F. Winchester,
40
50
17
45.2
96.1
Fall,
15
Room 5, I. E. Cundall,
32
41
39.3
36
91.6
Winter,
12
32
42
39
36.2
92.8
Spring,
12
32
19
48.3
44.6
92.3
Fall,
15
32
46
41.3
36.8
89.1
Winter,
12
32
42
38
34.3
90.2
Spring,
12
Room 2, HI. J. Lovejoy, A. F. ?
32
50
48.7
41.4
85
Winter,
12
32
54
49.5
42.5
85.8
Spring,
12
32
72
67.5
59.9
88.7
Fall,
15
Room 1, L. A. Chubbuck,
32
50
43
36
83.7
Winter,
12
40
69
60
53.3
88.8
Spring,
12
Flora M. Stuart, D. Libby, Assistant,
40
63
54.7
46.9
85.7
Fall,
15
40
29
27.6
26.4
95.6
12
M.W. Leymunion.
OI
E. F. Alden,
Room 3, E. F. Alden,
Sears, L. E. Page, S L. R. Allen, I. E. Cundall.
20
TERM.
12
15
RURAL SCHOOLS.
Wages per
Whole No.
enrolled.
Average
member-
ship.
Average
attend-
ance.
Per cent. of
attend-
ance.
| Number of
weeks.
Oxford,
J. B. Kemp,
$32
39
38.3
32
83.5
Winter,
12
3.2
38
36.7
34.2
93.1
Spring,
12
32
29
26.5
22.9
86.3
Fall,
15
32
23
21.3
16.3
76.5
Winter,
12
32
31
19.4
16.6
85.5
Spring,
12
E. H. Akin,
32
31
29
24.4
84.1
Fall,
15
Naskatucket, E. H. Akin,
32
15
14.3
8.7
60.8
Winter,
12
32
17
14.4
10
69.4
Spring,
12
Sconticut,
L. R. Allen,
32
21
19.5
14.7
75.3
Winter,
12
L. E. Page,
28
23
23
19.2
83.4
Spring,
12
28
21
19.7
16.3
82.7
Fall,
15
January 2 to March 23. April 9 to June 29. September 4 to December 14.
New Boston, M. E. Haney,
month.
TEACHERS.
TERM.
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