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The standing rules of the School Committee are here printed for the information of the public :
RULE 1. Children under five years of age shall not be ad- mitted to the public schools.
RULE 2. Pupils shall be promoted from grade to grade and school to school, according to merit. Thorough and satisfactory work will be required of pupils in a lower grade or school before entering a higher grade or school.
RULE 3. Children who have not previously attended any school shall be admitted to the public schools only at the be- ginning of the spring and fall terms.
RULE 4. Pupils will be held responsible for books loaned to them until such books shall have been returned to the teacher.
RULE 5. No repairs shall be made upon the public prop- erty in the care of the School committee except by their author- ized agents.
The appropriation of $100 for the purchase of apparatus and books of reference for the High school has been expended as follows : Apparatus and chemicals, $67.24; books of refer- ence, $28.58. We recommend the appropriation of $100 for this purpose for the current year.
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The sum of $375 has been received from the Commonwealth on account of salary of Superintendent of Schools.
The report of the purchasing agent of the Committee is published herewith :
SUMMARY OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES ON ACCOUNT OF SCHOOLS FOR THE YEAR 1897-98.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation for common schools,
$2,840 00
High school, 1,600 00
66 66 school supplies. 175 00
66
transportation S. E. pupils,
270 00
E. 210 00
66
apparatus and books for High school,
100 00
66
salary of Superintendent, 465 00
Received from Massachusetts school fund,
6.
dog licenses,
210 24
66
common schools, 42 00
$6,643 59
EXPENDITURES.
For common schools,
$3,430 75
High school,
1,642 83
school supplies,
472 38
270 00
transportation S. E. pubils, 66 E. 66
240 00
apparatus and books for High school,
97 62
salary of Superintendent of Schools,
465 00
$6,618 58
281 29
6 tuition in High school,
120 00
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ESTIMATES FOR THE SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS FOR THE YEAR 1898-1899.
For common schools,
$3,400 00
High school, 1,600 00
school supplies,
475 00
transportation S. E. pupils, E. 66
270 00
360 00
apparatus and books for High school,
100 00
salary Superintendent of Schools,
465 00
$6,670 00
For the School Committee.
CHARLES J. WILLIAMS, Chairman.
Superintendent's Report.
School Committee of Acton :
GENTLEMEN-The following report of the condition and the needs of the schools is respectfully submitted.
This is the sixth annual report which it has been my privi- lege to make to your committee, and through you to the people of Acton.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS.
Number of children in town, May 1, 1897, between 5 and
15 years of age, 260
Number of children in town, May 1, 1897, between 8 and 14 years of age, 166
Whole number of pupils enrolled in all the schools, 333
Number of pupils enrolled between 8 and 14 years of age, 197
Number of pupils enrolled over 15 years of age, 39
Average membership of all the schools, 275.36
Average attendance of all the schools, 259.6
Per cent. of attendance of all the schools,
94
Expense per pupil a year, based on average attendance, but not including cost of text books, $18 10
Number of public schools, 9
Number of teachers required, 11
Number of different teachers employed during year, 13
Average wages a month of female teachers, $39 58
Aggregate of months schools have kept, 78.
Valuation of town (census 1895), $1,530,970 00
Valuation of school houses and lots, $20,000 00
Population of town (census 1895), 1,978
Rate of Taxation, $11 50
Number of families in town (census 1895), 529
The number of children in town, between five and fifteen years of age, is fifteen more ; the number of pupils enrolled, one less ; the average, membership, twelve more, and the average attendance, ten more than last year.
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The different schools, with the exception of the West Acton Grammar and Intermediate schools, have been instructed by the some teachers throughout the year. That we have been fortu- nate enough to retain so many good teachers during this time, and some for even a much longer period, is cause for congratula- tion. It is always a decided advantage to a school to continue as its instructor a good teacher during the year, and longer, whenever possible ; and conversely, it is an unquestionable dis- advantage to a school, as well as annoying to the school officials, to have a change of teachers several times in the course of the year.
At the beginning of the winter term an Intermediate school was opened at West Acton. A school of this kind had long been needed there, and its advantages will be plainly apparent to any one who will investigate the instruction given in the schools. Previous to the opening of this school each teacher at West Acton instructed four grades. The Grammar school teacher had charge of forty pupils, in grades V, VI, VII, VIII. The studies required to be taught in this school are reading, arithmetic, language-including grammar, geography, history, spelling, writing, drawing, vocal music, and physiology and hy- giene -ten studies in all. The four last named may be combined, so as to take the time of two studies only. By making the com- binations indicated the number of studies a day would be re- duced to eight for each class, making thirty recitations in all. Consequently the teacher could give not quite eleven minutes to each of these classes, which averaged ten pupils apiece, not al- lowing any time for calling and dismissing classes, for individual work, nature study and general exercise. A teacher may hear this number of classes a day, as teachers did in the old-time school, but she cannot teach them in accordance with the require- ments of the times. The Grammar school has been in a demor- alized condition for over a year, because the right kind of insist- ence for putting an end to the disorder seemed to be lacking, and the pupils had fallen below grade. A decided change in the ad- ministration of school affairs at West Acton was thus rendered necessary in order to maintain discipline and to bring the pupils up to grade in their studies. The opening of an Intermediate school seemed the most feasible solution of the difficulties with
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which the school committee were confronted, and the results which followed this action of the Board demonstrated the wis- dom of adopting this plan to restore order and secure proper in- struction. As soon as this school was established discipline was more easily maintained, recitation periods were lengthened, more individual work was made possible, and greater attention was paid to the enrichment of the school course. A change in the Grammar school for the better was immediately perceptible, and a similar alteration was noticeable in the conduct of the Grammar school pupils who attended the Intermediate school. It was hard to realize that the orderly, industrious pupils of the Intermediate and Grammar schools were the disorderly, indolent pupils formerly of the Grammar school before Miss Burke as- sumed charge of it. There are now and then violations of good order by individual pupils, such as happen in all schools, but, collectively, the pupils' behavior in school and their inclination to do good work is exceedingly gratifying.
The superior schooling advantages which the third school gives West Acton pupils over those enjoyed in the other villages should induce the town to extend similar advantages to the pu- pils of South Acton, where they are needed certainly as much as at West Acton, and also to Acton Centre pupils. The constant enrichment of the school course makes the work of the teachers harder and harder; and when they are urged to carry out all the work which the course calls for, they contend that with four grades in a school the desired work is impracticable; and yet if our pupils are to enjoy similar school privileges to those afforded the pupils of most other towns, the work which the course calls for should be fully accomplished. To do this work Intermediate schools in the villages named are positively necessary.
The consolidation of the East Acton school with the Centre schools has proved of great advantage to the East Acton pupils. When they attended school in their own district there was ever present with them a tendency to insubordination, which seemed to have its foundation in the idea that parental influence was paramount in all school matters pertaining to their district, and would sustain then in doing about as they pleased, regardless of the rights and wishes of the teacher. It is an exceedingly dis- agreeable spirit for any teacher to contend against, but it prevails
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in out-lying districts generally, and is quite well developed at North Acton. It not only makes it more difficult for the teacher to maintain good discipline, but renders rapid progress in school work an impossibility. Since, however, the East Acton pupils have attended the Centre schools this disagreeable spirit, for which I do not think the children are to blame, has entirely dis- appeared, and they apply themselves to study very industriously and conduct themselves in an exemplary manner. Consequently their advance in the different studies has been quite rapid for two terms.
I have no doubt that the same advantages would accrue to the North Acton pupils, and that similar good results would fol- low from their instruction should they be transported from their own district to the Centre schools, especially if an Intermediate school was opened there in charge of Miss Miller.
Our High school is not approved by the State Board of Ed- ucation, because the number of teachers employed for its man- agement is insufficient to meet the required standard. I most earnestly urge the town to add the third teacher to the teaching force and to equip the school with a suitable laboratory and all needful apparatus for modern work. There is a bill before the legislature in some stage, which, if enacted, will oblige the town to maintain a High school which meets the approval of the State Board of Education or make it liable for the tuition of Acton pupils who may attend an improved High school elsewhere.
At the beginning of the winter term Miss Greenwood was engaged to assist Miss Keniston in the South Acton Primary school. This school, at the end of the fall term, had an average membership of over fifty pupils. The large number of pupils, and consequently the numerous classes, over forty, which a school of four grades makes necessary, rendered the service of an as- sistant indispensable, if the interests of the pupils were to re- ceive due consideration. The attempt to have modern work un- der old fashioned conditions makes the highest success in our schools unattainable. We must improve the conditions or prac- tically limit our pupils to the kind of education advocated by the Mayor of New York.
Report books, showing the progress of pupils in their studies, are sent to parents monthly, in order that they may be kept in-
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formed regarding the work of their children. Sometimes parents return these report books unsigned because the marks are not high enough to suit them. Occasionally one is accompanied with a letter expressing the disapproval of a report, and containing the parent's refusal to sign for this reason. Now the teacher, as expected by the school officials to do, will send a report which represents the truth of each pupil's proficiency in the different studies which he pursues, and all good citizens will sustain her in doing this, her unquestionable duty. A teacher who should send to a parent an untruthful report, simply to please or flatter him, would be unfit to have charge of children; and the parent who seeks to influence a teacher to make a wrong report is thoughtless, to say the least.
We have this year, among other things, broadened our work in English by making literature a part of the work of each grade. This work is pursued in three lines. First, by the pu- pils' reading books of good authors in school and at home; sec- ondly, by the teacher reading some good book to the school ; thirdly, by pupils memorizing some of the best poeins. Oral and written exercises on books and authors studied are required in connection with this work. In pursuing the three lines of work mentioned pupils have models of good English constantly before them. Thus their interest in good reading is aroused, their thought stimulated, their acquaintance with the works of our best authors extended, their memory stored with things worth knowing, and their taste for good literature cultivated. To fa- cilitate this work I have prepared a long list of good books for pupils to read, a list of poems to be memorized in each grade, and a list of books for teachers to read to their schools. Each teacher has been supplied with these ;lists, and if space permit- ted they would be printed in this report. This work should be enlarged upon this year, and to carry out what is desired the teachers' desks should be supplied with copies of the works of various authors and the supplementary reading list for pupils re- ceive many additions. So far as the appropriation for text books and supplies will permit, these books should be supplied to the schools.
Walsh's Intermediate Arithmetic has displaced Wentworth's in grades V, VI, and VII. This book completes the introduction
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of the Walsh series of Arithmetics into our schools. If arith- metic is taught according to the plan of these books pupils will get a more practical knowledge of the processes of arithmetic and a greater facility in the use of numbers than was obtained from the arithmetic formerly used.
Vocal music has been adopted as a study, and introduced into our schools as such this year. We are exceptionally fortu- nate in having regular teachers who can teach this study well. An excellent beginning has been made by them this year, espec- ially when the number of classes each teacher has is taken into consideration.
This is the sixth successive year that I have had the honor of serving as your superintendent of schools, and there is strong probability that it will be my last in this capacity. In closing this part of my report I wish to publish my high regard for your very efficient school committee, whose sole aim in their of- ficial capacity is to secure the highest good of the schools under their care, but whose valuable services in behalf of the educa- tional interests of the town, are, as very apt to be the case, too little appreciated. My relations with the school committee have been of the most cordial kind, and nothing has occurred to mar the harmony of action with which we have striven to promote the welfare of the schools. In my work I have been especially indebted to the efficient chairman of the committee, Mr. Wil- liams, for valuable counsel and helpful assistance. I wish also to record my high appreciation of the kindly feelings of the teachers toward me. My relations with them have, in general, been highly agreeable, and their co-operation with me in my work, with hardly an exception, I have always found active, loyal and invigorating. True, it has been my unpleasant duty since I have been your superintendent to call for the resignation of sev- eral teachers who were doing unsatisfactory work. I have never attempted to shirk this duty when it was deemed advisable to take such a course, nor have I ever seen the time when I felt that an apology was due a teacher or anybody else from me for performing this unpleasant duty. In each case it was done after due deliberation and consultation with the school commit- tee, and entirely in the interests of the good of the schools, for whose management the school officials are held responsible. I
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desire also to thank the people of Acton for the many courtesies which I have received from them. My intercourse with then has been of the most pleasant kind. I have always been met in a friendly, cordial manner, and I shall cherish forever many of the friendships which I have formed in this town.
Respectfully submitted, EDWARD DIXON,
Superintendent of Schools.
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A Table of Annual Statistics.
High.
South Grammar.
South Primary.
W. Grammar.
WV. Intermediate.
W. Primary.
Centre Grammar.
Centre Primary.
North School.
East School.
Teachers' Salary,
$1,000 450
$360
$360
$360
$120
$360
$360 ! $360
$360
$120
Enrollment,
55
38
65
2
48 30.52 29.1 95
25 18.32 17.21
26.8 25.8 95
21.1
275.36 259.6
Per ct. of Attendance,
47.07 95
96
91
95
91
94
89
94
Number between 8 and 14 years of age,
18
38
17
32
24
25
19
197
No. of boys enrolled.
21
20
39
18
9
19
13
12
18
162
No. of girls enrolled,
34
18
26
19
0
29
12
20
13
171
Expense per pupil, bas- ed on membership,*
$34.61 $12.81 $11.23 $14.00
$14.00
$22.68 $15.50 $14.70
Janitor's Salary, Cost of Fuel,
$180.00 156.85
$37.00 67.32
$76.00 36.32
$54.00 33.71
31 23.65
333
Average Membership,
49.04
34.67 33.2
47. 42.9
37 30.52 29.1
15.34 14.12
Number over 15 years of age,
37
-
-
1
1
39
84
Totals
32
Average Attendance,
* Cost of text books not included.
TOWN OF ACTON.
Number and Average Age of Pupils by Grades, September 1, 1897.
SCHOOL.
NUMBER BELONGING.
AVERAGE AGE.
lligh.
.
.
.
Ist yr. 17. 2d yr. 16. 3d yr. 13. 4th yr. 4.
1st yr. 13y. 6m. 2d yr. 14y. 4m. 3d yr. 15y. 2m. 4th yr. 16y. 7m.
GRADES.
I
III
IV |V
VI
VII
VIII
I
II
III
IV
VI
VII
VIIr
S. Grammar.
8
10
8
10
S. Primary.
18
12
11
11
10
9
4
4
6
3
8
1
9
1
W. Primary.
9
10
6
6
9
5
1
6
5
8
5
9
3
N. School.
6
3
6
5
5
-
-
5
5
S
8
6
9
9 11
3
-
-
-
-
13
8
40 |
34
26
33
30
29
22
23
M.
Y. M.
Y.
M.
Y. M. Y. 7 11 10
9
11
9
12
6
7
S
9
6
10
21
10
10
11
31
13
3
W. Grammar,
.
5
12
10
12
8
11
3
C. Grammar.
.
7
10
C. Primary.
.
The following is the law regarding the employment of female assistants :
Chapter 44, Sec. 14 .- In every public school having an average of fifty scholars, the school district or town to which such school belongs, shall employ one or more female assistants, unless such district or town votes to dispense with such assistant.
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M.
Y. M.
Y.
Y. M. ) Y.
M. 7
-
-
12
17
-
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Tabular Statement.
TEACHERS.
TERM.
SCHOOLS.
Wages of Teachers a month.
Whole Number of Pupils.
Average Membership.
Average Attendanæe.
| Per cent. of Attendance.
Tardy Marks.
| Dismissals.
| Time lost by Tardiness and Dismissals, in hours. | Number of Pupils neither Absent nor Tardy.
W. A. Charles, M. Florence Fletcher. (
High,
$111.11 52 50.08
48.75 95 24 31 49
22
50.00 48 47.36
45.36 95 36 29 47 9
34 32.8 31.7 97 65 14 25 12
Hattie L. Tuttle.
40.00 36 34.72 33.62 97 81
17 39 8
Lilla Keniston,
South Primary,
40.00 49 48.5
46.3
95 2
10
8 11
Helen E. Greenwood, (
28.00 54 48. 41.5
96
GO 6
Lina B. Taylor, and
1
West Grammar,
48.00
40 39.25 37.3
95
10
16 123 6
40.00
40.00 20 19.3 18.2
94 26 14
30
3
Alzora Jacobs,
West Intermediate,
40.00 27 25.82 24.17 38.4 42 40.2
93 25
14 12
·2
5
HarrietIII. Gardner,
Winter Spring Fall
15 14.8 13.8
97
1
17
22
Helene J. Sloan,
Center Grammar,
40.00 21 19.91 19.3
97 |11 1
11 11
Winter
21 20.26 18.54
98
8 2
6
Florence N. Day,
Spring Fall
Center Primary,
40.00 32 31.4
30.6 29.
93
5
3
2
6
Ella L. Miller,
Spring Fall
North,
40.00 28
23.97 20.23
84 21 44 59
0
-
47.1
95 58 35 64
6
South Grammar,
37 36.5 48 44.5 40.9
34.24 94 57 18 26
G
Lina B. Taylor,
40.00 35 33. 31.8
96
32 32 18
Mary R. Burke,
Mary R. Burke, }
West Primary,
40.00 32 30.46 29.49 96 19 11 13
8
26 24.02 21.64 90
21 13 13
0
4 5 INCIAL
Rose Standish,
Spring
East,
40.00 21 20.2
18.2
96
4 14 15
89:16 34 32 4
Winter
32.00 40.00 19,2 22 20.6 31 26.37 23.88
92
97 12 4
5 12
Winter
32 31.
89 1 12
16
19 18. 17.7
96 15 8
9
91.55 4 10
4
Spring Fall Winter Spring Fall Winter Spring Fall Winter Spring Fall Fall Winter Winter Spring Fall
52 49.7
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Superintendent's Supplementary Report.
LIST OF TEXT BOOKS.
HIGH SCHOOL.
English. - Whitney and Lockwood's Grammar; Lockwood's Lessons in English; Swinton's English Literature ; Landmarks of English Literature, Nicoll.
Shakespere-Julius Caesar, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet.
Hawthorne .- Tales of the White Hills.
Longfellow .- Evangeline.
Franklin .- Poor Richard's Almanack.
Irving .- Sketch Book.
French. - Reader, Grammar, Keetel ; Colomba, La Debacle, L'Abbe Constatin, Mlle. De La Seyliere.
Latin. - Beginner's Book, Collar and Daniel ; Grammar, Harkness ; Gate to Caesar,Collar ; Caesar, Allen and Greenough.
History .- English, Montgomery ; General, Myers ; Greece, Barnes ; Rome, Barnes.
Mathematics .- Arithmetic, Wentworth and Hill; Algebra, Wentworth ; Plane and Solid Geometery, Wentworth.
Science .- Physics, Gage; Chemistry, Shepard ; Botany, "How Plants Grow," Gray ; Physiology, Lincoln; Geology, Dana ; "Geological Excursions," Winchell ; Civil Government, Martin ; Astronomy, Sharpless and Phillips ; Political Economy, Jevons ; Book-keeping, Meservey ; Physical Geography, Mon- teith ; Zoology, Montmahon and Beauregard; Music, Normal Course.
OTHER SCHOOLS.
Readers, Davis ; Arithmetics, Walsh, Prince, Colburn; Geo- graphies, Barnes ; Language, Metcalf; Grammar, Whitney and Lockwood; Histories, Montgomery ; Speller, Harrington ; Phys- iology and Hygiene, Smith; Music, Normal Course ; Writing, Miss Hill's Educational ; Drawing, State Course.
SUPPLEMENTARY READING LIST.
Grade I .- Fables and Rhymes; Cyr's Primer and First Reader.
Grade II .- Æsop's Fables, Vols. I and II; Heart of Oak Books, Book I; In Mythlaud; Riverside Primer.
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Grade III .- Verse and Prose; Introduction to Leaves from Nature's Story Book ; Fables and Folk Stories.
Grade IV .- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ; Through the Looking Glass ; Heart of Oak Books, Book II.
Grade V .- Water Babies; Boston Tea Party ; Heart of Oak Books, Book III ; Pratt's History Stories, Vols. I, II, III.
Grade VI .- Book of Stories ; Montgomery's Beginner's His- tory ; Robinson Crusoe; Little Nell; Stories of Australasia.
Grade VII .- Franklin's Autobiography ; King's Second Geographical Reader; Glimpses of Europe; Sketches of the Orient ; Old Ocean.
Grade VIII .- Two Great Retreats; Stories of Massachu- setts ; King's Third Book; The Spy; Rob Roy; The American Tropics.
High School.
Eleventh graduating exercises of the Acton High School, class of '97, at Town Hall, Thursday evening, June 17th.
GRADUATES. Classical Course.
Roscoe Hosmer Knowlton, Howard Lewis Jones, Samuel Elmore Miller, Mabel Verne Parker, Alice Maybell Teele, Nellie Maria Scanlon, Alice Preston Willard. English Course.
George Morton Guilford, Edgar Clinton Hoit,
George William Holbrook,
Grace Alice Hayward,
Corrie A· lia Littlefield, erce,
Sheldon Ellsworth Littlefield, Eva Sawyer,
Luther Warren Piper. 1 PROGRAMME.
2 'rayer, ,
3-Song,
4-Conferring of Diplomas,
5-Song,
6- Address,
7-Selection,
Orchestra Rev. F. P. Wood Quartette Supt. Edward Dixon Quartette
Hon. Wm. A. Wilde Orchestra
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Department of School Supplies.
To the School Committee :
The annual report of the expenses of this department is respectfully submitted.
GINN & Co.
March 23. 1 P. and S. geom.,
$1 25
4 Plane geom., 3 00
$4 25
Less 1-6,
71
$3 54
May 8. 170 Prince arith.,
33 20
Less 1-6,
5 53
27 67
Sept. 9. 5 Prince arith.,
83
83
Oct. 23. 15 Prince arith.,
2 50
2 50
$34 54
SILVER, BURDETT & Co.
March 23. 15 Sys. experiment blanks, $3 75
Less 1-6, 62
$3 13
May 21. 3 No. 1 music charts, 30 00
1 No. 2 music chart, 10 00
75 1st music readers, 24 00
25 2d music readers,
15 00
79 00
Less 1-6,
13 16
65 8
7 C pitch pipes,
1 75
1 75
May 28. 50 1st music readers,
16 00
13 34
Dec. 7. 2 C pitch pipes & postage,
32
32
$84 35
1
Less 1-6, 2 66
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J. L. HAMMETT CO.
March 25. 2 doz. color books, $ 96
150 sheets bot. drying paper,1 50
40 lbs. arith. paper, 1 20
200 spelling blanks, 2 00
1 doz. mucilage, 60
6 26
March 30. 6 Leaves from Natures
Story Book, 1 62
6 In Mythland, 1 62
+ Robinson Crusoe, 1 44
4 Stories of Australasia, 1 44
4 Stories of Massachusetts, 2 16
8 28
April 10. Mounting congres'al map, 2 50
2 50
April 8. 1 doz. Zulu ink, 3 00
3 00
April 20. 100 spelling blanks, 1 00
1 00
May 6. 5 clay bricks, 1 00
6 boxes primary pencils, 1 20
161 sheets assorted colors, 5 04 7 24
May 11. 1 gr.No. 799 colored pencils, 3 50 10 gr. J. L. H. pencils, 7 50
6 gr. Eagle pens, No. 3, 2 40
15 rms.No.27 letter paper, 10 50 302 lbs. arith. paper, 5x8, 9 06
100 com. bill pads, 4 00
3 qr. No.2,J.L.H. drawing pencils, 6 75
12 rms. 9x12 draw'g paper, 3 60 2 doz. Earle's ink, 8 50
200 No. 140 blank books, 8 00
4 doz. mucilage,
2 80
6 "Number builder," 58
50 boxes crayons, 3 00
10 rms. 6x9 00 draw. paper, 4 00 3 doz. B. B. erasers, 1 80
12 pkgs. sand paper discs, 1 80 3 cabinets wts. & meas., 22 50 10 bx. No. 102 col'd sticks, 2 00 5 bx. No.470 Hallman's bds.,1 60
1
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May 11. 10 rms. paper, $5 50
2 lbs. No. 120 erasers, 1 40
35 lbs. wrapping paper, 1 75
33 sheets No. 4 paper, 1 00
1 Knobel's mosquitoes, etc. 45
4 Frye's gram. school geog., 4 17
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