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Coe, Ida, Story Hour Reader Book Three. Coe, Ida, Primer,
Cox, Palmer, Brownie Primer.
Crumh, Irving, Boys Book of Fireman.
Dickinson, Asa D., Children's Book of Patriotic Stories.
Fox, Florence C., Fox Indian Primer.
Grover, Eulalie Osgood, The Overall Boys.
Grover, Eulalie Osgood, Sunbonnet Babies.
Harris, Alice L., Eugene Field Reader.
Hasbrousk, Louise S., Chokecherry Island.
Hornibrook, Isabel, Drake of Troop One .-. Howe, Will D., First Reader.
Howe, Will D., Second Reader. Hyde, Aurelia, Hyde Primer.
Jenkins, Marshall, Norfolk Boy Scouts.
Ketchum, Irma, Our Story Reader.
Kirk, May, Baldwin Primer.
Lauge, D., Lure of the Black Hills.
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McManus, Hannah T., Natural Method Reader. McNeil, Everett, Boy Fortyniners. Piew, Arthur S., Plattsburgers. Porter, Eleanor H., Pollyanna Grows Up. Poulsson, Emilie, Top of the World Stories.
Rhoades, Nina, Plucky Little Patsy.
Sidney, Margaret, Five Little Peppers Our Dave's Pepper. Skinner, Eleanor L., Nursery Tales from Many Lands. Smythe, E. Louise, Reynard, the Fox.
Tomlinson, Everett, Scouting with Gen. Funston. Turpin, Edna, Peggy of Roundabout Lane.
Turpin, Edna, Rose Primer.
Varney, Minnie T., Robin Reader.
Walls, Carolyn, Patty Blossom.
Wells, Carolyn, Patty's Fortune.
Wheeler, Francis R., Boy with the U. S. Weather Man.
White, Emma G., Pantomime Primer.
Wilson, John Fleming, Tad Sheldon, Boy Scout.
Wilson, John Fleming, Tad Sheldon's, Fourth of July.
Wood, Eric, Boy Scouts, Roll of Honour.
YOUTH'S NON-FICTION.
590.
Burgess, Thornton W., The Adventures of Buster Bear.
Burgess, Thornton W., Chatterer, the Red Squirrel.
Burgess, Thornton W., Grandfather Frog.
Burgess, Thornton W., Jerry Muskrat.
Burgess, Thornton W., Johnny Chuck. Burgess, Thornton W., Mother West Wind How Stories.
Burgess, Thornton W., Mother West Wind When Stories.
Burgess, Thornton W., Old Man Coyote.
Burgess, Thornton W., Old Mr. Toad.
Burgess, Thornton W., Prickly Porky.
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821.
Cox, Palmer, Another Brownie Book.
Cox, Palmer, The Brownies Abroad.
Cox, Palmer, The Brownies Around the World.
Cox, Palmer, The Brownies at Home.
Cox, Palmer, The Brownies in the Phillipines.
Cox, Palmer, The Brownies Latest Adventures.
Cox, Palmer, The Brownies Many More Nights.
Cox, Palmer, The Brownies Their Book.
Cox, Palmer, The Brownies Through the Union.
909-Gen. History.
Welsh, Charles, Stories of Adventure Children Love.
930
Dopp, Katherine E., The Early Cave Men.
Dopp, Katherine E., The Early Sea People.
Dopp, Katherine E., The Later Cave men.
Dopp, Katherine E., The Tree Dwellers.
949.9.
Ionelsheere, Robert, When I was a Boy in Belgium.
942-English History.
Dutton, Maude Barrows, Little Stories of England.
998.
Snell, Roy J., Little White Fox and his Artic Friends.
FAIRY TALES.
Baldwin, James, Fairy Reader. Baldwin, James, Fairy Story and Fables. Davis, Mary Hayes, Chinese Fables and Folk Stories. Nixon-Roulet, Mary F., Japanese Folk Stories and Fairy , Tales.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
School Committee
OF THE TOWN OF
DIGHTON
Year Ending December 31, 1917
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Clifton C. Andrews, North Dighton, Ralph Earle, Dighton,
George H. Walker, North Dighton,
George A. Clark, Dighton,
Samuel N. Codding, North Dighton,
Robert W. Whitmarsh, Dighton,
Term expires 1918. Term expires 1918. · Term expires 1919. Term expires 1919. Term expires 1920.
Term expires 1920.
ORGANIZATION.
Clifton C. Andrews, Chairman, George H. Walker, Secretary.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Mortimer N. Bowman, Dighton, Mass.
ATTENDANCE OFFICER.
Howard C. Briggs, Segreganset, Mass.
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN.
Dr. L. E. Butler, Dighton, Mass.
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SCHOOL CALENDAR
Winter term, 10 weeks, Monday, Jan. 14, 1918 to Friday, March 22, 1918.
Spring term, 10 weeks, Monday, April 1, 1918 to Friday, June 7, 1918.
Fall term, 16 weeks, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 1918 to Friday, Dec. 20, 1918.
Winter term, 11 weeks, Monday, Jan. 6, 1919 to Friday, March 21, 1919.
Spring term, 9 weeks, Monday, March 31, 1919 to Friday, May 30, 1919.
HOLIDAYS.
New Years Day, Washington's Birthday, Patriot's Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Thanks- giving Day and the day following.
DATE OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEETINGS.
The regular monthly meeting of the school committee is held at 7.45 p. m. on the Friday preceding the first Saturday of each month.
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Report of the School Committee
Superintendent's Report
To the School Committee of Dighton:
With the opening of the schools this calendar year the long expected new school building at North Dighton was available. The building is up to date, thoroughly sani- tary, well lighted, with rooms of standard size. It also contains ample halls and two rooms suitable for business meetings and storage of school supplies. The school rooms are pleasant and fully meet all the latest require- ments of state inspection. The completion of this build- ing permitted the return of the north grammar school, which for more than a year had been quartered in the South building. At present the new building contains the grades from the 4th to the 9th, inclusive, under two teachers. One of the larger rooms in the older building has been closed. This permits the saving of considerable fuel. Also the grades have been rearranged so that the upper primary room, which for several years has had more than fifty pupils, is relieved.
At the South building one room is unoccupied, because it was impossible to get a desirable teacher. To meet this emergency a temporary - division of grades was made. But with the opening of the fall term another teacher must be secured in order to remove the over crowded condition of two rooms.
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Too much praise cannot be given the teachers who have remained loyal to their work, when other fields of employ- ment, inviting in time and character and paying a far higher wage are attainable. Loyal to their profession, honorably keeping their agreement while multitudes dis- regard compacts made, losing opportunities for just ad- vancement merited by years of advancing usefulness, these and more will all be forgotten by the masses. But for the present it must not be forgotten that in the restless condition of society added care and strain fall to the lot of the instructor in order to maintain the standard of education. Additional work, increased expense, keeping in some form of war calls put a stress on the loyal patriotic teacher in both her professional and citizen capacity. Furthermore the great and unprecedented call of men from this profession to the field of anus has created a hitherto unheard of demand for teachers. Therefor every town in making up its financial budget for the coming school year must substantially increase its appropriations.
The national and state governments at frequent intervals stress their opinions relative to education in all its phases. It is practically a national edict that children under 14 years of age shall not be removed from school to exploit any personal or selfish plans. There are not wanting those who would take advantage of the present state of affairs to forward their own mercenary motions. In connection with the whole school problem the Commissioner of Edu- cation has expressed his position in these words, "It is - timely to re-emphasize the importance of carrying for- ward the work of public education at every point at the highest possible standard of efficiency." "Needless to say, the common desire of school officers, as well as citizens, is that the schools shall at once perform their present duty to the nation and protect the interests of the children with respect both to themselves and to the future citizenship of which they will be a part."
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As the children of today are the men and women of tomorrow, the practical place for proper citizen training is the public school. Even to-day after being and having for three and one half years a great part in the awful world conflict, our nation does not fully sense its duty. The only remedy for this is to teach the children that not only is there such a thing as democracy but that they now are and in the future will be a part of that democracy. That its characteristics are unselfishness, justice and sympathy: but that it also demands that individuals and nations shall both give and take in all their relations.
To teach the children to take, only, is to found another and greater autocracy and thus defeat the efforts of men and women who are giving their all to make the world safe and saner. The war will leave years of bitterness that centuries cannot efface. Education must be so broad and sane that peace will abide forever and that there will be no room for the traitor. On this issue the school must give no uncertain sound. Official and teacher must be loyal.
With pleasure we express our thanks to all who have aided in making the school work of the year successful.
Respectfully submitted, MORTIMER H. BOWMAN,
Superintendent of Schools.
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FINANCIAL REPORT
OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
RECEIPTS.
Balance in Treasury, Jan. 1, 1917,
$42.57
Appropriation March Town 'Meet-
ing, 14,000.00
State allowance for Superintendent, 500.00
Income from Dog Licenses, 341.07
Return of School Tickets,
6.00
Mass. School Fund,
1,241.90
Tuition of State Wards,
99.00
$16,230.54
EXPENSES.
Teachers Salary for 1917,
$7,179.80
Janitors Salary for 1917,
864.00
Supt. Salary and Expenses,
697.00
Books,
197.68
Supplies,
555.47
Fuel,
990.29
Transportation,
872.80
Tuition,
2,306.75
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School Physician,
60.00
Incidentals, 81.86
Water System and well at Dighton School, 236.97
Painting all School Buildings in- side and outside, 968.52
Repairs, 799.46
$15,810.60 $419.94
Balance Dec. 31, 1917,
School Committee,
Town of Dighton,
G. H. WALKER,
Secre tary.
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Report of School Physician
To the Town of Dighton;
In my annual inspection of your school I found the following conditions ;-
60 cases of Head Lice. 17 cases of Enlarged Tonsils.
Several bad cases of skin eruptions of a noncontagious character.
Respectfully submitted,
L. E. BUTLER,
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Report of Supervisor of Music
To the Superintendent of Schools:
Music, in the schools of Dighton, continues-on the same plan as last year.
Beside the work in musical theory, in exercises and reading, as classified for each grade, a number of good songs have been taught.
At Christmas, the pupils learned several Christmas carols.
At present, all are learning the same patriotic song.
The kind assistance of the superintendent is much appreciated.
The teachers are most helpful and much depends on their good work.
The pupils love music and are enthusiastic both in singing and in the study of music.
Respectfully submitted,
NETTIE F. HANNANT,
Supervisor of Music.
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Report of Supervisor of Drawing
Mr. Mortimer H. Bowman, Supt. of Schools, Dighton, Mass: Dear Sir :-
The following is my report as drawing supervisor for the school year.
I find that the teachers of Dighton have worked faith- fully and well. The children have been interested and · show excellent previous training. The conditions in re- lation to working material have been unusually bad. I find that the teachers and myself are very greatly handi- capped for supplies. Under the working conditions I feel that the teachers have accomplished wonders. I fully realize how necessary economy is during time of war. I expect no luxuries or unnecessary materials of any sort. But paper and crayons are necessities. Each child should be supplied with needed colors and paper for a lesson. In many schools necessities have been lacking except in al- most uselessly small quantities. The results of many lessons are thereby discouraging both to the children and to the teachers. I hope that during the latter half of the year matters may be remedied.
I have kept my outline of work as simple and practical as possible for the different arrangements of grades. I have tried mainly to correlate history, geography and language with the drawing lessons; also to take advantage of the spirit of holidays and current events. I have
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watched the trend of each childs ideas and tried to guide these ideas into proper expression rather than force them in any particular direction. The main purpose of the. drawing course in the public schools, I believe, is not half so much to produce at the end of the year a great showing of artistic work, as to give to each child a new knowledge of how to express his own ideas in the best possible manner.
I have particularly dwelt on the question of supplies because of the five towns in which I am supervisor, no one has given me so great a handicap to work with; also no one has displayed greater signs of interest and energy a- mong the teaching force. It seems to me such interest and energy should be rewarded by a clear field for progress rather than discouraging retardation.
Respectfully submitted,
KATHERINE L. SEARS.
Supervisor of Drawing.
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Report of Attendance Officer
To the School Committee, Dighton, Mass :
Gentlemen :-
I herewith submit my report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1917. I have made 173 visits to parents to investigate causes of non-attendance. In nearly every case the fault was with the parents or guardian of child. I wish to thank all of the school authorities for their cheerful co- operation with me.
Respectfully submitted,
HOWARD C. BRIGGS,
Attendance Officer.
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HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS.
Taunton.
Molly Place, Class 1918. Arthur Staples, Class 1918. Thatcher Pardey, Class 1919.
Wallace Emerson, Class 1919.
Edna Bowen, Class 1920.
Parker Carr, Class 1920.
Emery Lincoln, Class 1920.
Joseph Roderick, Class 1920. Elizabeth Walker, Class 1920. Florence Westgate, Class 1920.
George Wheeler, Class 1920. Beulah Armstrong, Class 1921. Ruth Bordon, Class 1921. Charles Glynn, Class 1921. Randolph Gordon, Class 1921.
Lester Lassen, Class 1921.
William Marsden, Class 1921. Helen Nichols, Class 1921. Percy Tinkham, --- Class 1921.
Fall River.
Weston S. Earle, Class 1918. Percy Simmons, Class 1918.
Esther Brightman, Class 1921. Elizabeth Earle, Class 1921.
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Elsie W. S. Ward, Class 1918 .-* Henry L. Rock, Class 1920. Louise Brightman, Class 1920.
Elmer E. Haskins, Class 1921. Nellie M. Washburn, Class 1921.
CHANGE OF TEACHERS.
School. South Intermediate B, Broad Cove, Fish,
Appointment. Ruth H. Roberts. Edith V. Goff. Mildred Elliott.
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TABLE A ATTENDANCE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1917
Schools
Teachers
Number of Boys
Number of Girls
Total
Enrollment under
Enrollment between
Enrollment between
Enrollment between
14 and 16 years
Total Membership
Average Membership
Average Attendence
Per cent. of Attendence
Visits
North Grammar
Eva A. Fuller
15
21
36
0
0
26
10
36
29.6
28.3
95.6
80
North Intermediate
Carolyn C. Grace
15
18
33
0
0
32
1
33
25.7
24.4
94.9
330
North Primary A
Rebecca Ellis
26
26
52
0
0
49
3
52
45
42.3
94
189
North Primary B
Florence M. Churchill
25
17
42
0
18
24
0
42
39.4
36.3
92.1
199
South Grammar
21
18
39
0
0
33
6
39
36
33.5
93.1
70
So. Intermediate A
15
14
29
0
0
28
0
28
26.4
24.9
94.3
72
So. Intermediate B
Ethelyn L. Upton
24
20
44
0
0
44
0
44
35.3
33.4
94.3
140
Ruth H. Roberts
11
18
29
0
2
27
0
29
27.4
24.8
90.5
131
South Primary A
13
20
33
0
18
14
1
33
26.9
25
92.6
115
South Primary B
Cora W. Walker
17
13
30
0
5
25
0
30
26.9
22.5
83.6
34
Broad Cove
May F. McIsaac
20
12
32
0
5
27
0
32
28
23.3
82.5
50
Flat Rock
Ruth H. Roberts
17
16
33
0
7
25
1
33
29
25.8
88.9
50
Fish
Mildred Elliot
Williams
Emma F. Chase
17
12
29
0
6
20
3
29
26.8
24.4
91
70
Brick
Marjorie F. Kingsley
15
16
31
0
8
22
1
31
25.6
22.6
88.3
46
Segreganset
Dorothy K. Roberson
11
15
26
0
18
16
2
26
20.2
18.2
90.1
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Nettie F. Hannant, Supervisor of Music. Katherine L. Sears, Supervisor of Drawing.
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5 years
5 and 7 years
7 and 14 years
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Belle D. Rogers
Helen H. Lane
Doris E. Moulton
Mabel W. Emery
Edith V. Goff
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TABLE B
SHOWING AGE AND ASSIGNMENT OF PUPILS BY GRADES
Schools.
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
North Grammar
13
13.3
14.5
North Intermediate
12.3
12.8
North Primary A
10
9.7
North Primary B
6.5
7.5
South Grammar
12.5
13.3
So. Intermediate A
11.1
So. Intermediate B
9.2
10.4
South Primary A
8.1
South Primary B
7.8
Broad Cove
7.5
3.2
10.5
11
Flat Rock
7
8
11
10.5
12
12
13
Fish
7
8
8
10
11
11
12
13
Williams
6.8
7.8
8
9.5
10.8
10.8
13.1
14.6
Brick
6
9
9.5
11
11
11
13
Segreganset
6
6.5
8.5
9.5
9
11
12
13.6
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TABLE C
SHOWING NUMBER AND ASSIGNMENT OF PUPILS BY GRADE
Schools.
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
North Grammar
7
16
8
North Intermediate
16
17
North Primary A
24
28
North Primary B
22
22
South Grammar
27
19
So. Intermediate A
30
So. Intermediate B
25
14
South Primary A
30
.
South Primary B
27
Broad Cove
6
10
9
3
Flat Rock
6
5
3
5
5
4
1
Fish
10
5
5
5
5
2
2
2
1
Williams
5
5
2
5
5
3
1
4
Brick
11
5
4
2
1
8
3
Segreganset
5
4
4
2
2
2
1
1
3
1
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