Town annual report of the offices of the town of Dighton 1918, Part 5

Author: Dighton (Mass. : Town)
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Dighton (Mass. : Town)
Number of Pages: 152


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Sept. 9 Joshua S. Bliss of Bourne and Sarah E. Hatha- way of Dighton, by Rev. Lincoln B. Goodrich.


Oct. 14 J. Franklin Staples of Dighton and Gertrude Williams of Taunton, by Rev. W. S. Mac- Intire.


Nov. 6 Louis Constantine and Mary Monteiro, both of Dighton, by Rev. John P. Doyle.


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BIRTHS RECORDED DURING YEAR 1918


Date Name


Jan. 5 Thomas Saunders 7 Kenneth Benjamin Atwood 12 Lawrence Paine Tweedy 12 John Cambra


19 Louisa Pacheco


25 Joseph Smith


29 Lyman Eustis Briggs


30 Manuel Viera


31 Lena Roderick


Feb. 1 John Barrows


3 Mary Rita Lenney 5 John Wolszok 7 Edwards 7 Ronald Ernest Marsden


7 Donald Russell Marsden


8 William Conrad Goff


9 Mary Sylvia


13 Priscilla Maybury Harrison


15 Ettaline Pettrilla


15 Charles Russell Wyatt


25 Edward Loyal Reynolds


25 Lawrence John Reynolds


26 Laura Souza 21 Bosse


24 Harrison


Mar. 6 Robert Healy Ballou 7 Dorothy Louise Leonard 9ª Cushman


Wade


Name of Parents


Thomas A. and Mary Saunders Herbert and Sadie Atwood Howard P. & Bessie E.Tweedy John P. and Mary Cambra Manuel and Mary Pacheco James W. and Rose Smith Lyman E. & Alma F. Briggs Antone and Mary Viera


Joseph and Mary Roderick Louis and Augusta Barrows Romeo F. & Rosina M. Lenney Steve and Anastasia Wolszok John H. and Sophia Edwards - Thomas and Agnes Marsden Thomas and Agnes Marsden William E. and Lillian E. Goff Frank J. and Mary F. Sylvia John W & Ella F. B. Harrison Licordina & Assunta Petrilla Frederic F. and Catherine V. Wyatt


Ambrose H. and Beatrice L. Reynolds


Ambrose H. and Beatrice L. Reynolds


John and Mary Souza Pierre and Marie Louise Bosse Adelbert C. and Margaret S. Harrison


Ai W. and Annie Ballou Herbert H.& Helen C. Leonard Theodore E. and Christine Cushman Elmer J. and Olive Wade


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11 Jeanne Augusto Kingsford 29 Anne Goldrick 30 Joe de Costa


April 4 Merle Quinliven 14 Stephen Caleb Briggs


15 Leonel Furtado 16 Wilfred James Eckersley 29 Reynolds


May 5 Antone Cardoza 5 John Cambra


10 Dorothy Cambra


15 Still born 27 Marjorie Frates Manuel G. and Annie Frates 28 Hildreth Miriam Manchester Wm. J. & Alice L. Manchester


June. 1 Joao Fernandez


2 Henry Dexter Greenlaw 4 Josephine Rose 15 Elizabeth Varney


16 Still born 20 Olive Elizabeth Sylvia 29 Brassell


July 2 Monteiro


5 Malçolm Bruce Rose


5 Amelia Wood


7 Emma Florence Pierce


16 Laura Torres


19 Alice White


20 Delana Williams Hathaway


23 Eva Conto


31 Elizabeth Hope Cameron


Aug. 3 Joseph Cambra 7 Pauline Costa


10 Joseph Rogers Fisher


10 Alfred Rogers Fisher


18 Elaine Bullard


19 Margaret Mary Chisholm


2 20 Henry Mainiz


Sept. 1 John Joseph Bolger


1 Mary Alice Goulart


6 James Corey 6 Lester Morris Horton


8 Still born 14 George S. Silvia


Carleton L. & Mary C. Kingsford Frank L. and Annie Goldrick Joe and Mary P. de Costa Merle D.& Edith M. Quinliven Caleb S. C. and Maria Briggs August P.& Sophie M. Furtado Joseph & Mary E. F. Eckersley Edwin H and Elsie S. Reynolds Marano and Maria Cordoza Joseph P.& Constance Cambra Frank P. and Mary Cambra


Joseph and Virginia Fernandez Edward D. & Lucy E. Greenlaw Joseph R. and Mollie Rose Wm. H. and Alice Varney


John and Olive Sylvia


Thomas E.& Catherine Brassell Joseph S.and Annie L'Monteiro Jose. F. D. and Laura J. Rose Antone S. and Amelia Wood Harold L.and Maude E. Peirce Manuel P. and Mary L. Torres Manuel C. and Mary White Howard P.&Alice M.Hathaway Manuel and Mary Conto William and Isabelle Cameron Julius P. and Edordina Cambra Manuel and Mary Costa


- Charles and Mary Fisher Charles and Mary Fisher Leland F. & Hazel I. Bullard Alex and, Mary Chisholm Antone and Mary Mainz John and Rose Bolger Manuel and Mary Goulart Joseph S. and Mary S. Corey Chas. L and Clara M. Horton


Joseph S. and Mary J. Silvia


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18 John Gomes 24 Ceasar Ventura


Oct. 3 Sylvia 12 Manuel Mello


13 Arita M. Webster


13 Still born 17 William F. Gegeheimer


22 Margaret Frances Dutra 27 Bradford Dary Place


Nov. 4 Harry Edward Brown 10 Theresa Silvia 14 Victoria Albert. 23 Beatrice Gasper


Dec. 2 George Alvin Staples 5 Mary A. Vincent 14 Carmine Orlando Colombo Di Petrillo


14 Villoro Diaz Liberty Trent Di Petrillo 29 Trenor Franklin Goodell


April 16 Maria F. Botelho


Joseph and Amelia Gomes Victor N.& Couceicao Ventura Manuel F. and Mary Sylvia Manuel F. and Mary S. Mello


Chas. A.and Marion G.Webster


William F. and Catherine E. Gegenheimer


Frank S. and Mary Dutra


Frank B. and Olive P. Place


Harry E. and Doretta Brown Antone and Teresa Silvia Manuel and Olivia Albert Manuel S. and Mary J. Gasper William G.and Helena A.Staples Armindo and Mary Vincent Guerino M. and Filomena


Petrillo


Guerino M.& Filomena Petrillo


Trenor F.and Marion J. Goodell Francisco and Maria Botelho


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DEATHS RECORDED DURING YEAR 1918


Date Name


Age Cause of Death


Y. M. D.


91 3 19 Excessive cold


86 4 8 Dilatation of heart


76 2 23 Bronchitis


28 Rebecca A. Horton Feb. 3 Hannah Andrews Talbot 77 5 Cerebral Hemorrhage


12 Antonio de S. Domingus


13 Vangelina K. Rodrigues


21 Charles M. Pierce


83 11 3 Carcinoma of stomach


28 Joas S. Domingus


28 Lawrence J Reynolds


Mar. 5 Dexter T. Pierce 11 Baby Wade


16 Albert L. Searle


27 Martha Louisa Smith


14 Louis Souza


April 1 James Robertson


13 Rose Vieira


14 John Wolszok


21 Betsey M. Palmer


30 John Thomas W. Lee


79


7 3 Arterio Sclerosis


May 9 Daniel D. Andrews 15 Still-born


18 Rufus P. Horton


79


10 Mitral Regurgitation


24 Manuel Reis


24 Julla C. Rodrigues


35


16 11 18 Pulmonary Tuberculosis Hemorrhage from stomach


29 Johanna Howard


52


16 Dilatation of heart Pulmonary Tuberculosis


June 5 Maria J. C. Torres 13 Jessie Fratis 16 Still-born


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4 3 Pulmonary Tuberculosis


34 3 29 Augina Pectoris


74 7 11 Arterio Sclerosis 3 Premature birth


22 Adolph Bukacek 25 Alfred W. Perry


29 Brassell


5 17 Lobar Pneumonia


82 8 29 Acute Nephritis


6 7 4 Broncho Pneumonia


2 9 Broncho Pneumonia


75 6 24 Acute Insanity 54 Pulmonary Tuberculosis


3 ·27 Broncho Pneumonia 3 Convulsions


84 7 5 Aortic Obstruction 18 hrs. Non-closure of foraver ovale 81 7 8 Carcinoma of throat 74 6 10 Chronic Institial nephri- tis


7 25 Bronchitis 9 4 Bronchitis


Jan. 8 George E. Gooding 14 David Phillips


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July 6 Henrietta Swasey 41


7 Clarence C. Andrews 52


8 Rita McCarthy


12 Jesuina Borges


8 Lobar Pneumonia 7 20 Tubercular Meningitis


18 Abbie H. Briggs 68


21 Mary Leonard 6


27 George Edward Brown


12 10 15 Accidental Drowning


31 Maria F. Botelho


3 15 Gastro Enteritis


Aug. 2 Josephine G. Thaxter 77 11 25 Apoplexy


16 Maria Franco 45 Chronic Diffuse


Nephritis


Sept 18 Joao Camara


30 Jose Silveira Souza 31


21 Catherine J. Chisholm 13 Peritonitis Influenza & Pneumonia


4 Reginald McNeil


12


0 23 Influenza


5 Jacob. E. Flye


69


2 8 Carcinoma of the back


7 Sylvia


2 Obstructed bile duct Influenza & Pneumonia


8 Ezabello Rodrigues Cabral 35


· Sept. 8 Still-born


Oct. 8 Arthur C. Boyce


35 11


3 Broncho Pneumonia


8 Jose Dutra 17 11


9 Arthur Lawrence Sousa 31


Sept 10 Elizabeth Carroll 74


.2 19 Arterio Sclerosis Broncho Pneumonia


Oct. 12 Jose Moura 34


13 Still-born


14 Antonio Nunes 25


Influenza


15 Alice Fancerca


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4 18 Influenza Broncho Pneumonia Influenza


15 Mary Fernandez Souza 22


15 Dora T. Ballou 19


2 19 Typhoid Fever and Influenza


16 Louis Barros Goncalves


8 16 Broncho Pneumonia


16 Emma Jane Bosworth


17 Anna Freitas 32


68 7 7 Chronic Institial Nephritis Broncho Pneumonia- Influenza


17 Margarite Freitas


3 Influenza


17 Joseph Cambra


2 6 Broncho Pneumonia- Influenza


1 Acute Gastro Enteritis


19 Joas S. Philipe


4 27 Mitral and Aortic Insufficiency


4 22 Cerebral Hemorrhage 6 29 Gastro Enteritis


18 Doris Lamoureux


6 Arterio Sclerosis


4 9 Congenital Cretinism


Oct. 4 Raso Megull 36


11 13 Gastro Enteritis Lobar Pneumonia


2 Influenza Influenza & Pneumonia


15 Lucianno Moreira 37


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20 Manuel C. Carvalla 26


26 John Francisco Silva


16


26 Julius Pacheco Camera 41


26 Anna B. Souza 35


27 Mamie Medeiros 6


28 Sarah McCabe 64


31 Amanda Waters 78


6 Merle Quinliven


Nov. 7 Doris D. Sherman 23


10 Manuel Vieira


18 Lydia M. Horton


- 19 Audelia Jane Hutchinson


Dec, 3 Annie Amelia Oldmixon 70 2 8 Carcinoma of duodenum


19 Urial M Haskins


Broncho Pneumonia- Influenza


Bronch Pneumonia- Influenza Broncho Pneumonia- Influenza Pneumonia Influenza Broncho Pneumonia- Influenza


4 23 Cerebral Hemorrhage.


9 16 Arterio Sclerosis 6 Marasmus


9 15 Influenza-Broncho Pneumonia


9 Bronch Pneumonia


75


89


1 Uremia Old age


75 8 · Diabetis Nephritis


Respectfully submitted,


DWIGHT F. LANE,


Town Clerk.


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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORT


Dighton, Jan. 1, 1919.


I herewith make my eighth report as Librarian:


Number of Volumes in Library, Dec. 31, 1917,


4,258


Purchased during year,


166


Number of Volumes presented Library,


37


Number of Volumes in Library, Dec. 31, 1918,


4,461


Money received from fines and turned over to


Town Treasurer, $20 36


Borrower's cards,


890


Circulation during year,


8,471


Adult fiction,


4,793


Youth's fiction,


2,188


Non-fiction,


1,490


Magazines,


1,079


Number of persons using reading room,


3,117


During the year, 1918, there have been presented to the Library books from the following sources: Mrs. Emily E. Frazer, six books of non-fiction, seven books of fiction; Mrs. M. M. Smith, seven books of non-fiction and Miss Josephine Thaxter, seventeen books of non-fiction: Mrs. L. E. Butler has contributed The Red Cross Magazine. The Campfire Girls, The Wohelo, The Baptist Church, The


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Watchman, The Unitarian Church, The Christian Register and The Beacon, The W. C. T. U., The Union Signal. The Board of Health ordered the Library closed ten successive days during the recent epidemic.


Respectfully submitted, LYDIA J. COLE,


Librarian.


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FINANCIAL REPORT OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES.


RECEIPTS.


Appropriation,


$750 00


Receipts from dues,


20 36


Gift from a friend,


10 00


$780 36


EXPENDITURES.


Overdrawn Jan. 1, 1918,


$25 43


Paid Janitor service,


92 34


Gas light,


34 89


Fuel,


96 00


Supplies, and repairs,


30 66


Books,


176 11


Magazines,


40 75


Librarian's salary,


199 92


Asst. Librarian, labor,


25 23


Unexpended Jan. 1, 1919,


59 03


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$780 36


Respectfully submitted,


DWIGHT F. LANE,


Chairman of Trustees.


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List of Books Added to the Dighton Public Library, Year 1918.


FICTION.


Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell, Ne'er Do Much.


Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell, Stingy Receiver. Aldrich, Darragh, Enchanted Hearts. Allen, James Lane; Kentucky Warbler. Atherton, Gertrude, White Morning. Bacheller, Irving, Light in the Clearing.


Baldwin, Harold, Holding the Line. Barbusse, Henri, Under Fire.


Bindloss, Harold, Girl from Kellars.


Bindloss, Harold, Lure of the North. Bosher, Kate L., Kitty Canary. Bower, B. M., Lookout Man. Brainerd, Eleanor H., How Could You, Jean?


Browne, Belmore, White Blanket.


Comstock, Harriet T., Mam'selle Jo. Connolly, James B., The U Boat Hunter. Connor, Ralph, Major. Curwood, James Oliver, Courage of Marge O'Doone. Dawson, Conningsby, Out to Win.


Dell, Ethel M., Greatheart.


Dell, Ethel M., Hundredth Chance.


Dell, Ethel M., Knave of Diamonds. Dell, Ethel M., Rocks of Valpre.


Dillon, Mary, Comrades. Diver, Maude, Unconquered.


Doyle, A. Conan, His Last Bow. Empey, Arthur Gut, First Call. Fenollosa, Mary M., Sunshine Beggars. Foote, John T., Lucky Seven. Freeman, Mary E. W., Edgewater People. Gates, Eleanor, Apronstrings.


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Grayson, David, Great Possessions.


Grey, Zane, U. P. Trail. Dighton Public Library Page 2 Hall, Bert, In the Air.


Hanshew, Thomas W., Cleek, Master Detective. Harben, Will N., Hills of Refuge.


Holmes, R. Derby, Yankee in the Trenches.


Hughes, Rupert, Long Ever Ago.


Jackson, Charles T., Call to Colors.


Kerr, Sophie, Golden Block. King, Basil, High Heart. Lee, Jeanette, Green Jacket.


Lincoln, Joseph C., Extricating Obadiah (2 copies).


Lincoln, Joseph C., Shavings.


Lincoln, Natalie S., The Moving Finger.


London, Jack, Little Lady of the Big House.


Luther, Mark L., Hope Chest.


Lutz, Grace L. H., Enchanted Barn.


MacGrath, Harold, Girl in His House.


Mccutcheon, George B., City of Masks. McFee, William, Aliens. Meade, Mrs. L. T., Polly, A New Fashion Girl. Mitchell, J. A., Drowsy.


Newton, W. Douglass, War Cache.


O'Brien, Edward J., Short Stories, 1917. Oppenheim, E. Phillips, Pawns Count. Peat, Harold R., Private Peat. Pertwee Roland, Transactions of Lord Louis Lewis.


Porter, Eleanor H., O, Money, Money.


Porter, Gene Stratton, Daughter of the Land. Reynolds, Mrs. Baille, Lonely Stronghold. Rickard, Mrs. Victor, Light Above the Cross Roads. Rhinehart, Mary R., Amazing Interlude. Rhinehart, Mary R., Street of Seven Stars. Ruck, Berta, Three of Hearts. Scott, LeRoy, Mary Regan.


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Sharp, Dallas L., Hills of Hingham.


Sharp, Dallas L., Where Rolls the Oregon.


Sidgwick, Devils Cradle.


Strayer, E. Ward, Making Good With Margaret.


Sullivan, Edward, Tales From Scott.


Streeter, Edward, Dere Mable.


Thompson, Ernest Seton, Preacher of Cedar Mountain.


Tinyan, Marcelle, To Arms.


Tolman, Albert W., Jim Spurling, Fisherman.


Twain, Mark, Adventures of Tom Sawyer.


Von Hulton, Beltina, Bag of Saffron.


Vorse, Mary H., The Prestons.


Wallace, Dillon, Grit, A Plenty.


Ward, Mrs. Humphrey, Elizabeth's Campaign.


Ward, Mrs. Humphrey, Missing.


Wells, Carolyn, Vicky Van.


Williamson, Everyman's Land.


ADULT NON-FICTION.


279 Churches.


Butler, Mrs. John Wesley, Historic Churches in Mexico. Wilson, Epiphanius, Cathedrals of France.


327 Foreign Relations.


Morgenthau, Henry, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story. Palmer, Frederick, America in France.


Palmer, Frederick, America Save the Near East.


594.


Whyte's Adam's, World's Wonder Stories.


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Donahue, Margaret F., A Manual of Nursing.


635 Flowers.


Curtis, Charles H., Sweet Peas and Their Cultivation.


641 Cooking.


Evans, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Elizabeth's Wartime Re- ceipts.


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728 Architecture.


Dorr, Joy Wheeler, A Book of One Hundred Houses.


740 Decoration. 1


Gibb, William, Book of Porcelain. Hope, W. H. St. John, Heraldry for Craftsman and De- signers.


821 Poetry.


Foxcroft, Frank, War Verse. Morgan, Angela, Utterances and Other Poems.


909 General Hostory.


Singleton, Esther, World's Greatest Events, Vol. 1. Singleton, Esther, World's Greatest Events, Vol. 2. Singleton, Esther, World's Greatest Events, Vol. 3. Singleton, Esther, World's Greatest Events, Vol. 4. Singleton, Esther, World's Greatest Events, Vol. 5.


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921 Biography.


Clark, Charles E., My Fifty Years in the Navy.


Lauder, Harry, Minstrel in France.


Pine, Frank W., Franklin's Autobiography. Richard, Laura E., Abigal Adams.


Wheeler, Francis R., Thomas A. Edison.


ADULT NON- FICTION.


942 England. Howe, Gordon, What to See in England.


943 Germany.


Gerard, James A., Face to Face Kaiserism.


Cheradame, Andre, Pan-German Plot Unmasked.


McCarthy, Daniel J., Prisoners of War in Germany.


949 Holland.


Boulger, Demetruis C., Holland of the Dutch


949-3


Anon, War Nurse's Diary.


950 Koreans.


Taylor, Constance, Koreans at Home.


951 China.


Alsop, Gulielma F., My Chinese Days.


962 Egypt.


Samon, Percy R., The Wonderland of Egypt.


973 United States.


Eggleston, George Cary, Life in the Eighteenth Century. Earle , Alice Morse, Home Life in Colonial Days.


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ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


School Committee


OF THE TOWN OF


DIGHTON


Year Ending Dec. 31, 1918


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SCHOOL COMMITTEE


¡George H. Walker, North Dighton, George A. Clark, Dighton, R. F. D., Samuel N. Codding, North Dighton, Robert W. Whitmarsh, Dighton,


Term expires 1919 Term expires 1919 Term expires 1920 Term expires 1920


*Clarence C. Andrews, North Dighton, Term expires 1921


Ralph Earle, Dighton, R. F. D., Term expires 1921 *(Died July, 1918. A. S. Muirhead appointed to March, 1919).


¡(Resigned Dec., 1918. Position vacant).


ORGANIZATION.


Robert W. Whitmarsh, Chairman. Ralph Earle, Secretary.


SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.


Mortimer H. Bowman, Dighton, Mass. (Phone 22-4 Dighton).


ATTENDANCE OFFICER.


Howard C. Briggs, Segregansett, Mass.


SCHOOL PHYSICIAN.


Dr. L. E. Butler, Dighton, Mass.


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SCHOOL CALENDAR


Winter term, 12 weeks, Monday, Dec. 30, 1918 to Friday, March 21, 1919.


Spring term, 10 weeks, Monday, March 31, 1919 to Friday, June 6, 1919.


Fall term, 16 weeks, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 1919 to Friday, Dec. 19, 1919.


Winter term, 11 weeks, Monday, Jan. 5, 1920 to Friday, March 19, 1920.


Spring term, 9 weeks, Monday, March 29, 1920 to Friday, May 23, 1920.


HOLIDAYS.


New Years Day, Washington's Birthday, Patriots' 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 Satur- day of each month.


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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE


Superintendent's Report


To the School Committee of Dighton :


Loss of Time.


No statement of the school year's work would be com- plete without a mention of the loss caused by a closing of the schools for four or more weeks. To some this does not appeal because they are not in close touch with the schools or think that in some mysterious manner the pupil will absorb enough education to get through the grade or complete the year's work. But to the teacher and school officials well as a few homes, loss of time is a source of anxiety. Time can never be made up neither can it be substituted. We either move along with the current of the stream or are left behind with all the connecting re- sults. Although some localities are conditioned more than we are yet our position is serious because so many of the homes depend upon market gardening for an income. After a careful survey of the whole subject it was decided to shorten the winter vacation and lengthen the school year one week in June. Even under these conditions two weeks of time will be lost. Although teachers and pupils will intensify their work, yet it will be impossible in some cases for pupils to complete the grades. Some work must be left over to the following year and the loss charged to the debit side of life's account.


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School Attendance.


This is a perennial subject. It must remain such until a reasonable degree of perfection has been attained. That degree is the inalienable right of a child to an education that comprises the first fourteen years of his life. Since that child is to become an American citizen it is not within the province of the parent to say when or how much his child shall attend school. That prerogative belongs only to the state and the nation. During the past two years, while home labor has been in great demand, the child has been sacrificed to the greed of the home. The large wage attainable in the mill has so preyed upon the cupidity of many a parent that he has forced the older child into the factory and kept the younger one to work at home during school hours. When appealed to by the attendance officer, such a parent will present a variety of excuses, frequently based upon an overdrawn imagination, and continue to cheat his child and the nation. This procedure is radi- cally wrong no matter by whom practiced. Until every man, voluntarily or by compulsion, obeys the laws of the state, a stable democracy is theoretically only. To give a child only an half opportunity for an education is failing to give him an opportunity to become an American citizen. Far more frequently than is thought, pupils leave school when in the 5th, or 6th grade. Such a child, because there are neither books nor papers in the home to maintain school standards, relapse into a degree of ignorance that prevents him from becoming a man among men in any business way. When the national census shows that in Bristol County, of this Commonwealth, there is an illiter- acy of 10.8 per cent., it is time that the children were given a chance to attend school instead of being cheated year after year of their rights by their ignorant parents. Any sane citizen need only look at present European conditions to fully realize which is the safer element in any country, educated or uneducated.


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Work or Play.


It is not a very uncommon practice to have a pupil in the high school so neglect his work that he fails to receive a passing mark. Perhaps a slight margin should be allowed for extenuating circumstances for which the home is re- sponsible, but in the main it is a personal affair with the boy or girl. He does not appear to sense the fact that the high school is far different from the country school that he last attended and which sent him out to try his fortunes with scores of others. In the high school marking time is not enough. Being in faithful daily attendance is not sufficient. Faithful thorough preparation of all lessons and good recitations must be added to such attendance. Furthermore there must be an ambition to reach higher rank by hard work no matter how many hours the prepara- tion of a lesson requires. It is not just to the town that pays the tuition and transportation nor to the state that may or may not in part reimburse the town for such ex- pense, to allow undue shirking. Such a practice encour- ages an obtuse view of rights and privileges by pupils and leads them to think that they have an inalienable right to disregard all responsibility at their own pleasure. Occa- sionally the home will encourage such a child to change from one school to another, which for the major part is of doubtful benefit, in order to prolong the day of final failure. Such procedure is wrong for the pupil, who if he will not do his full duty at school, should be placed at some useful occupation. If a parent is determined to indulge his child in this manner, after a fair trial of one year in the high school and the failure of such a pupil to maintain a passing rank, he should pay all bills and take the consequence with good grace.


Enlargement or School Buildings.


During the summer vacation Flat Rock School build- ing was enlarged by the addition of some 12 feet. This


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adds much to the comfort of the children and provides suf- ficient room for some future years. This enlargement was imperative as can be proved from census statistics. Fur- thermore there is an equally urgent demand for similar enlargement of the Fish and Williams school buildings. There is no other remedy except the transportation of pupils to the central schools. The demand for these en- larged surroundings is not caused by some sudden influx of people, but is rather the result of slow and steady in- crease of population. This tends to substantiate the theory that whatever enlargements are made will be in demand for some years to come. In making these improve- ments due regard should be given to light, ventilation and sanitary needs.


With pleasure we express our thanks to all who have aided in amking 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 FROM JAN. 1, 1918 TO JAN. 1, 1919.


RECEIPTS.


Balance in Treasury Jan. 1, 1918, $419 94


Appropriation for general purpose, 15,500 00


State allowance for Superintendent, 500 00


Bristol County dog fund, 407 50


Sale of R. R. tickets, 6 00


Massachusetts School fund,


790 98


Tuition of State Wards,


103 50


Special appropriation for repairs,


1,500 00


Total receipts,


$19,227 92


EXPENSES.


Teachers' salaries for 1918,


$8,048 36


Janitors' salaries for 1918,


1,292 00


Supt. salary and expenses,


729 17


Books,


258 98


Supplies,


544 52


Fuel,


1,444 95


Transportation,


616 38


Tuition, High School,


1,650 00


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Elementary, tuition,


63 00


School Physician,


60 00


Incidentals,


331 01


Repairs,


1,181 95


Total general expense,


$16,220 .32


Total special repairs, $1,493 67


Balance general expense Jan. 1, 1919, 1,507 60


Balance special repairs Jan. 1, 1919, 6 33


$19,227 92


Respectfully submitted,


RALPH EARLE,


Secretary.


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REPORT OF SCHOOL PHYSICIAN


To the Town of Dighton :


I respectfully submit the following report as School Physician for the ensuing year:


Enlarged Tonsils,


16


Head Lice,


63


Respectfully submitted,


L. E. BUTLER, M. D.


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REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC


To Mt. M. H. Bowman, Superintendent of Schools:


Dear Sir :- For the work in music, in the schools of Dighton, practically the same plan is followed.


Each year the effort is made to thoroughly accomplish the work specified for each grade.


The study of music principles, ability in sight-reading, good pitch, the interpretation of songs of various char- acter, and interest in music, are some of the points empha- sized. Patriotic songs are sung. More Christmas carols were learned this year.


The power of music is unlimited. It makes us, it soothes us to sleep.


It is necessary for glad occasions, and also for sad ones. The war has helped to show the tremendous force of music.


Let us have music, and still more music.


Respectfully submitted,


NELLIE F. HAMMANT,


Supervisor of Music.


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REPORT OF ATTENDANT OFFICER


To the School Committee, Dighton, Mass .:


Gentlemen :-- ·


I herewith submit my report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1918. I have made 206 visits in investigating the causes of non-attendance. In most cases the fault lies with the parents.


The influenza epidemic of last October interfered to some extent with school attendance. I think all connected with the schools for their cheerful co-operation.


Respectfully submitted,


HOWARD C. BRIGGS,


Attendance Officer.


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HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS


Taunton.


Class 1919. Thatcher Pardey. Ruth Reynolds. Class 1920. Edna Bowen. Emery Lincoln. Elizabeth Walker.


Class 1921. Charles Glynn. Lester Lassen.


William Marsden.


Joseph Roderick. Class 1922.


Norman Cameron.


Randolph Gordon. Leslie Meacock. Elton Staples. Anna Viera.


Fall River.


Class 1920. Louise Brightman.


· Henry L. Rock. Esther Brightman. Elizabeth Earle. Elmer E. Haskins. Nellie Washburn.


Class 1922. Herbert Carr. Homer Carr. John M. Earle.


CHANGE OF TEACHERS.


School. South Primary A., Flat Rock, Brick,


Appointment. Marjorie F. Kingsley. Helen G. Edgar. Florence M. Young.


TABLE A ATTENDANCE STATISTICS FOR THE' YEAR 1918.


1


Schools


Teachers


Number of. Boys


Number of Girls


Total


Enrollment Under


Enrollment Between


Enrollment Bewteen


Enrollment Between


14 and 16 Years


Total Membership


Average Membership


Average Attendance


Per Cent. of


Attendance


Number of Visits


North Grammar


Eva A. Fuller


21


17


38


0


0


30


8


38


33


31.5 37.7


130 100


North Intermediate


Carolyn C. Grace


20


23


43


0


0


43


0


43


Rebecca Ellis


25


20


45


0


0


42


3


45


35.8


31.9


89.1


85


North Primary A


Florence M. Churchill


25


21


46


0


23


23


0


46


38


34


89.5


44


North Primary B


Belle D. Rogers


23


20


43


0


0


34


9


43


39


35.3


90.5


62


South Grammar


Helen H. Lane


16


19


35


0


0


34


1


35


34.5


33.1


90.1


43


So. Intermediate A


Ruth H. Roberts


22


22


44


0


0


44


0


44


40.5


36.9


91.2


76


So. Intermediate B


Doris E. Moulton


9


17


26


0


0


25


1


26


24.7


21.8


88.2


103


South Primary A


Marjorie F. Kingsley


14


13


27


0


22


4


1


27


24.8


22


88.7


102


South Primary B


Mabel W. Emery


20


13


33


0


3


30


0


33


30.7


26.2


85.3


49


Broad Cove


May F. McIsaac


19


12


31


0


2


29


0


31


29


22


75.9


56


Flat Rock


Helen G. Edgar


20


16


36


0


4


30


2


36


31.1


26.3


84.6


37


Fish


Emma F. Chase


17


10


27.


0


4


21


2


27


26.5


23.6


89.1


61


Williams


Marjorie F. Kingsley


15


19


34


0


7


25


2


34


26.8


24


89.6


74


Brick


Florence M. Young


Segreganset


Dorothy K. Robinson


12


13


25


0


5


18


2


25


21


19


90.5


79


15


ANNUAL REPORT


95.5


41


91.9


5 Years


5 and 7 Years


7 and 14 Years


Edith V. Goff


Mildred Elliott


16


ANNUAL REPORT


TABLE B


SHOWING AGE AND ASSIGNMENT OF PUPILS BY GRADES


Schools


I


II


III


IV


V


VI


VII


VIII


IX


North Grammar


12.6


12.7


14


13.8


No. Intermediate


11.7


10.5


North Primary A


8.3


9.6


North Primary B


6.6


South Grammar


13.3


13.8


14.7


So. Intermediate A


11.6


11.6


So.Intermediate B


9.5


10.5


South Primary A


9


South Primary B


6.8


Broad Cove


7.5


8.9


10.1


11.2


12.2


Flat Rock


7


8


10


12


12


12


13


14


Fish


6.5


8.5


8.8


9.5


11.8


12.5.


12.8


13.8


14.8


Williams


7.7


7.5


8.3


11


11.7


11.9


14.2


Brick


7.2


3.8


9


11


11.8


12.8


14.3


Segreganset


7


8


8


10


12


11


13


14


17


ANNUAL REPORT


TABLE C


SHOWING NUMBER AND ASSIGNMENT OF PUPILS BY GRADES.


Schools


I


II


III


IV


V


VI


VII


VIII


IX


North Grammar


21


13


3


3


No Intermediate


21


33


North Primary A


19


20


North Primary B.


47


South Grammar


24


11


4


So.Intermediate A


17


25


So.Intermediate B


22


26


South Primary A


22


South Primary B


29


r


Broad Cove


10


7


7


7


4


Flat Rock


7


3


4


4


6


4


3


1


Fish


10


2


6


7


4


6


1


2


1


Williams .


3


3


4


6


5


3


1


Brick


-


9


7


2


6


·2


8


1


Segreganset


5


4


4


4


2


·2


1


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