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19. Aug. 8. Gertrude Mary Hill.
20. Aug. 9. Helena May Boyce.
21. Aug. 12. Everett Rhee Spinney. Everett L. and Lilla M. 22. Aug. 24. Dexter Merriam Keezer.
23. Aug. 31. Edith Florence Bowen.
James and Mary J. Charles E. and Annie J.
Frank M. and Martha M. Lewis B. and Effie F.
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TOWN OF ACTON.
No. Date of Birth.
Name of Child.
24. Sept. 2. Mary Agnes Gough.
25. Oct. 4. David Joseph Foley.
26. Oct. 6. Albert Willard Evans. Joseph W. and Mary A:
27. Oct. 10. Howard James Billings. Fred W. and Mary A.
28. Oct. 31. Earl Henry Glazier.
29. Nov. 7. Ruby May Greer.
30. Nov. 20. John Patrick Cahill.
· 31. £ Dec. 13. William Joseph Moore. William J. and Mary A.
32. Dec. 21. Michael Thomas Foley.
33. Dec. 26. Wilford Priest Hooper.
Names of Parents. John E. and Margaret A. Patrick and Johanna.
Thomas and Emma. John and Jessie. John and Mary.
Michael and Johanna. George B. and Ida E.
MARRIAGES.
No. Date.
Names.
1. Jan. 6. George Higgins, Helena F. Jones,
2. Jan. 8. Fred M. Barrows, Mabel E. Parsons,
N. Acton
3. Jan. 9. Clifton Davis,
Boston Boston
4. Jan. 9. Patrick Foley,
S. Acton
Johanna Conway, S. Acton
5. Jan. 12.
Alden B. Johnson, M. Ida Ramsdell, John Greer, Jessie Vaughn,
S. Acton
W. Acton
7. Jan. 29. Charlie A. Durkee, W. Acton
Carrie M. Gilmore,
W. Acton
8. Jan. 31. Leonard G. Willard, Emeline M. Merriam,
S. Acton
9. Feb. 4. John Cahill,
S. Acton
Mary Tolman,
S. Acton
10 Feb. 10.
Harvard
Frederick A. Whitney, Adelia S. Beach,
Harvard
11. Feb. 19. Edward Goggin,
S. Acton
Ellen Mahoney,
S. Acton
12. Feb. 24. Gustavus V. Bowen, Julia A. Kneeland,
S. Acton
Jamaica Plain
Residences. Boston So. Acton South Paris, Me.
Sarah H. Whittemore,
E. Acton Natick
6. Jan. 15.
S. Acton
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ANNUAL REPORTS
Residence.
13. Mar. 24.
Names. Harry W. Sawyer, Alice Mead,
S. Acton Maynard
14. Apr. 18.
Nelson J. Cole,
S. Acton
Grace M. Jones,
S. Acton
15. Apr. 29. Earl C. Anson, Meltha Bassett,
S. Acton
16. May 16. Alfred E. Chambers, Carrie S. Willard,
S. Acton
17. May 30. John W. Leahy, Mamie E. Conant,
W. Acton
18. June 1.
Harry A. Fletcher, Alice J. Hoar,
WV. Acton
19. June 11. Ernest Hosmer, Martha C. Pratt,
S. Acton
20. June 12.
George B. Arnold, Fontienella E. Turner,
Concord
21. June 12. Charlie S. Robbins, Medora C. Barker,
Acton
22. June 15. Alfred J. Williams, Ida A. Ingram,
S. Acton
23. June 19. Charles A. Hunter,
S. Acton
Grace M. Dow,
IV. Acton
24. Aug. 1.
Charles W. Rice, Isabel S. Jones,
Boston
25. Sept. 3. James A. Morse,
IV. Acton
26. Sept. 11.
Malden
Malden
27. Oct. 9. Fred W. Wood, Florence H. Flagg,
. Acton
28. Oct. 10. William B. Holt,
W. Acton
Addie L. Guilford,
W. Acton
29. Oct. 16.
S. Acton
Alfred M. Hanks, Anna Fales,
Athol
30. Oct. 16. Harry J. Rodway,
W. Acton
Lucy E. Perkins,
Boxboro
Charles H. Norris,
Salem
31. Oct. 21. Emma F. Clemence,
S. Acton
No. Date.
Wadham's Mills, N. Y.
S. Acton
W. Acton
Hartford, Conn.
Aye
Acton
Littleton
Boston
Boston
Georgiana Beach, James W. Maguire, Agnes Corbett,
W. Acton
Concord
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TOWN OF ACTON.
No. Date. Names. 32. Nov. 17. Charles Kennedy, Katie Neyland,
33. Nov. 27. Henry Booker,
Estelle M. Cavanaugh,
34. Dec. 10.
Walter C. Gardner, Nettie E. Lord,
W. Acton Maynard S. Acton
35. Dec. 11. Alfred M. Chapman, Emma C. Anderson, Roxbury
36. Dec. 31. Henry H. Russell, Maynard
Mabel V. Mead,
W. Acton
DEATHS.
No. Date.
Name.
Age.
Mos. Ds.
1. Jan. 7.
Guy MeLaughlin,
0
3
7
2. Jan. 20. Mary Ann J. Hayes,
34
0
3. Jan. 28. Nellie F. Whitcomb,
35
3
6
4. Jan. 29. George Gardner,
60
2
13
5. Feb. 13.
Augusta C. Jones,
61
9
0
6. Feb. 27.
Joseph Redfearn,
82
0
0
7. Mar. 6. Leon F. Gilmore,
0)
9
8
8. Mar. 17.
Esther Johnson,
0
3
0
9. Mar. 17.
Ann Augusta Crooker,
62
4
21
10. Mar. 22.
Hannah Murphy,
85
0
11 £ Mar. 29.
Anna Moan,
8
8
24
12. Apr. 18.
Phebe Putney,
87
1 18
13. Apr. 22.
James W. Moan,
7
3
21
14. Apr. 24.
Mary E. Moan,
11
4
11
15. Apr. 25.
Sarah P. Forbush,
70
1 19
16. Apr. 26.
Ploomy P. Wood,
77
2
7
17. May 3.
Nelson Morton,
59
10
20
18. May 4.
Johanna Kane,
47
19. June 27.
Alfred Lee Randles,
26
-
20. June 28. Moses B. Garfield,
76
6
11
21. July 10. Adelaide Wilkins,
9
12
22. July 21.
Amos P. Wood,
76
23. Aug. 4. Henry Cahill,
20
24. Aug. 7. Mary W. Chaffin,
88
5 19
Yrs.
Residence.
W. Acton W. Acton Acton Orrington, Me.
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ANNUAL REPORTS
AGE-YS. MS. DS.
25. Aug. 21.
Arthur William Taylor,
32
9
8
26. Aug. 22. Ann McCarty,
60
27. Aug. 23. Henry Haynes,
83
4 19
28. Aug. 31. Lydia A. Stevens,
78
29. Sept. 4. Maud Howard Knowlton,
1
2
26
30. Sept. 19. . Patrick Francis McCarthy,
0
1 19
31 Sept. 26.
George E. Priest,
33
6
17
32. Oct. 5. Rebecca M. Morrison,
49
S 29
33. Oct. 25. John Jones,
52
11 22
34. Dec. 1.
Phineas Wetherbee,
71
S
7
35. Dec. 1. Abigail Lord,
90
0)
16
36. Dec. 7. John Grimes,
81
9
0
37. Dec. 16. Mary Elizabeth Taylor,
70
1
11
38. Dec. 16. Child of Fred J. and Mary E. Whitcomb,
39. Dec. 31.
Susannah Graham,
78
8
13
PERSONS BROUGHT TO ACTON FOR BURIAL.
No. Date of Death.
Name and Residence.
Age. Yrs. Mos. 89
1. Feb. 18. Susan Robbins of Natick,
2. Mar. 5. Isaac Barker of Malden,
89
7 3
3. Mar. 5. Ernest L. Hall of Charlestown,
1
5 9
4. Mar. 8. Lucy G. Barker of Boston,
87
3
27
5. Mar. 25. Silas Davis of Boston,
52
9 0
6. Apr. 14. Endora J. Willis of Shirley,
44 7 11
7. Apr. 15. Grace A. Forbush of Lowell,
17 3 16
8. May 5. Persis Hapgood of Hudson; Mich.,
83
9. May 6.
Emma F. Burns of Chelmsford,
25
9
18
10. May 15. Nancy T. Moore of Chelsea, 75
85
2
13
12. June 25. Maria Yapp of Boston,
85
6
-
13. July 4. Ray F. Fessenden of Everett,
5
-
14. July 3. George M. Pike of Hudson,
61
4
11
15. July 13. Hugh Cash of Littleton,
86
16. Julv 17, 1889. Myra F. Hall of Charlestown,
1 10
-
17 July 20. C ara E. Cutler of Wakefield,
52
10
23
18. Sept. 16. Newbert W. Hall of Charlestown,
6
2
26
-
Ds.
11. May 31. Elizabeth H. Dole of Marlboro,
43
TOWN OF ACTON.
AGE-YS. MS. DS.
19. Oct. 15. Charles H. Moore of Chelsea, 79 - -
20. Oct. 17. Robert P. Burroughs of Alstead, N. H., 43 11 12
21. Oct. 24. Mary A. Rand of West Boylston, 68 3
3
22. Oct. 23. Hannah P. Weston of Fitchburg, 71
7 17
23. Oct. 26. Annie L. Blanchard of Lawrence, 23
11 3
24. Oct. 26. Kate I. Kinsley of Lowell, 37 7 24
25. Nov. 21. Ellen J. Farrer of Lynn, 44 -
26. Dec. 2. Irma Christine Richardson of Fram- ingham, 3
5 4
PERSONS HAVING DOGS LICENSED IN 1895.
Ralph Crooker
Luke Tuttle
Calvin S. Symonds, 1 female
Charles S. Moulton
Charles W. Allen
A. L. Lawrence
Charles Morris
Solon A. Robbins
E. Eddie Fletcher
Adolphus Desseault
James P. Brown
L. V. Clough.
Albert H. Perkins
C. J. Williams
Francis A. Houston
John Temple
Fredson P. Brooks
WVm. F. Stevens
Frank L. Stiles, 1 female
Constance O'Neil
Charles A. Taylor
C. A. Hodges A. L. Tuttle A. J. Fletcher,
W. F. Kelly
Daniel H. Farrer
Lyman Tuttle F. R. Knowlton
Frank W. Bulette
George T. Knowlton, 1 fem.
Charles H. Mead & Co.
Mrs. J. M. Kraetzer
John H. Haniford
Hanson A. Littlefield
Howard E. Faulkner
Daniel Mahoney
Fred W. Green
Charles F. Shirland,
George Hayward
Moses Taylor
Henry L. Livermore
Charles B. Stone
John W. Randall Willis L. Mead
M. E. Taylor
Lucius S. Hosmer
H. M. Smith
Mrs. Lottie C. Flagg Henry Stapley
Fred S. Whitcomb
Luther Conant
D. C. Harris
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ANNUAL REPORTS
W. W. Philbrick
Wm. Barnes, 1 female
James H. Standish
W. S. Fletcher Smith Finney
John F. Coughlin
Henry Hanson
Frank R. Stevens
Charles A. Harrington
E. C. Smith
Warren H. Jones
N. T. Leganger, 1 female
Elnathan Jones
F. J. Taylor
Charles M. Kimball
C. C. Leighton
Ira Manley
E. S. Fobes, 2
A. Merriam
Mrs. Varney
Frank Pratt
Wm. S. Jones
A. L. Noyes George H. Brooks
Tuttles, Jones & Wetherbee
Hattie White
George W. Worster
Roswell L. Tuttle
George W. Clark
Walter A. Gilmore
George A. Conant
F. M. Keezer, 2
George Conant
S. B. Ineson
Abel Farrar, 1 female
F. E. Harris
Webster C. Robbins, 2
Wm. B. Manning, 2
J. E. Durkee
Forbush & Hartwell
John McCarthy
A. C. Jenkins
Wm. J. Hayes, 1 female
Solomon L. Dutton
May L. Calder Maurice Lane
$210 00
35 00
Total, 112,
$245 00
NOTE .- To make the registration as complete as possible, the Town Clerk requests information of any omission or error in the lists of births, marriages and deaths.
NOTE .- In accordance with Section 8, Chap. 32, of the Pub- lic Statutes, the Town Clerk hereby gives notice that he is pre- pared to furnish to all physicians and midwives applying there- for, blanks for the return of births.
HORACE F. TUTTLE,
Acton, Jan. 1, 1896.
Town Clerk.
105 males at $2.00, 7 females at $5.00,
S. Hammond Taylor Otis B. Mott
Hiram E. Gates Sidney Gray
Nahum Littlefield
A. Risso Wm. J. Moore
Charles H. Wheeler
O. A. Knowlton Freeman W. Robbins
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TRUSTEES
OF THE
ACTON
MEMORIAL LIBRARY
1895=96.
١
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TOWN OF ACTON.
Acton Memorial Library.
The Trustees of the Acton Memorial Library submit to the town their sixth annual report, showing the condition, gains, and, in some degree, the work of the institution for the past year.
The library was opened to the public June 14, 1890, at which time the total number of books was 3,973 ;- present total num- ber, 5,590, a gain, during the nearly six years since opened, of a little more than 33 per cent. Of course, not all of the books thus added are adapted to general circulation ; some are for reference, some statistical, and others not of general interest. It has seemed to the Board of Trustees that the limited amount of money at their disposal for the purchase of fresh, new books, might prove insufficient to retain the general interest of the large number of readers who take the books from the library. A portion of the time the amount has been enlarged by gifts, from Mr. Wilde, of a sum of money equal to the sums voted by the town for this purpose. While we have endeavored to make the wisest and best possible use of the money entrusted to us for the purchase of books for the library, we have had to restrict our purchases with- in quite narrow limits, not being able to purchase many desirable books, however valuable, on account of their cost.
And if anything was needed to insure the permanent success of our library, Mr. Wilde makes the following very generous pro- posal, which we now have the opportunity to submit to the town :
BOSTON, March 6, 1896. LUTHER CONANT, Pres. Board Trustees, Acton Memorial Li- brary :
DEAR SIR : I have for a long time felt that more books were wanted in your library, books covering a larger range of subjects, yet I have felt that the town was appropriating about as much as could be expected of them for books, magazines and papers. After giving much thought to the subject, I have arrived at the
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following conclusions, i. e., if my proposition meets the approval of the Board of Trustees. The enclosed document will explain fully my ideas.
Yours truly, W. A. WILDE.
BOSTON, March 2, 1896. To the Trustees of the Acton Memorial Library :
GENTLEMEN : I hereby offer to give to the Acton Memorial Library the sum of five thousand dollars, this sum to be kept in- vested by the trustees of the library, and their successors, as a permanent fund, and the income expended yearly by the trustees in the purchase of books, magazines and papers for the library, to be for the free use of all the inhabitants of the Town of Acton, under such by-laws and regulations as the trustees may make, from time to time, as provided in Chapter 52 of the Acts of 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Acton Nemorial Library, upon the following condition :
That the Town of Acton, in addition to such appropriation as the town may make for the other uses of the library, shall an- nually appropriate and pay to the trustees, to be by them ex- pended in the purchase of books, magazines and papers for the library, the sum of two hundred dollars, and should the town in any year refuse or neglect to make this appropriation and pay the same to the trustees, this gift shall thereby be forfeited, and shall revert to me, if living, and in case of my prior death, shall there- by be forfeited and revert to my heirs-at-law.
W. A. WILDE.
The acceptance by the town of this noble endowment of our library by Mr. Wilde will give us about 400 volumes a year of the freshest and most desirable of current publications, and with what we may reasonably expect from donations from other sources, in ten years our present number of volumes will be near- ly doubled.
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TOWN OF ACTON.
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN, MARCH 6, 1896.
Total number of volumes in library,
5,590
Added by purchase, 153
" gift,
44
Total added,
197
Total number of persons who have taken out cards,
1,086
Fines,
$16.03
Books taken out during the year,
8,766
Largest daily use, March 16, 1895.
Smallest daily use, May 29, 1895.
Visitors registered during the year,
557
Gifts to the Library :
A watch, belonging to Jedediah Tuttle, a resident of Acton, born 1792, died 1861; presented by his granddaughter. Mrs. Carrie Jones Leathe, of Woburn.
Medal-Rev. Edward G. Porter, Lexington.
Cap owned and first worn by Silas Conant, one of the Davis Blues, of Acton, the first Wednesday in May, 1823, on Acton common. Presented by Joseph F. Scott, Concord, Supt. Mass. Reformatory.
Picture-presented by R. Wetherbee, M. D., Cambridge, Mass.
Statue, " Industry "-by Hon. Wm. A. Wilde.
This very beautiful and costly work of art makes, in some degree, a companion piece to " Contemplation," presented by Mr. Wilde some years ago.
Oil painting, " Departure of Minute Men from Acton, early morning of April 19, 1861,"-presented by Luther Conant.
Donations of books :- J. W. Harlow, Lexington, Mass., 1; F. A. Wyman, Esq., Boston, Mass., 1; Adelbert Mead, West Ac- ton, 1; Mary W. Fletcher, Acton, Mass., 3; John Fletcher, Acton, Mass., 1 ; W. A. Wilde, Malden, Mass., 3; Rev. Edward G. Por- ter, Lexington, Mass., 2; D. J. Wetherbee, E. Acton, Mass., 2; Luther Conant, Acton, Mass., 1; Mrs. Luther Conant, Acton, Mass., 1; Wm. D. Tuttle, Acton, Mass., 1 ; Rev. Bernard Copping, Acton, Mass., 4; Rev. George Clark, West Acton, Mass., 1; Mrs. N. E. Reed, E. Acton, Mass., 2; Geo. T. Angell, Boston, Mass., 1;
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children of E. R. Hoar, Concord, Mass., 1; unknown, 1; H. O. Moore, 1; State, 16 ; total, 44.
Periodicals donated for the Reading Room .- Child's Hour. Our Sunday afternoon, Harper's Round Table, Wm. A. Wilde ; Our Paper, Mass. Reformatory ; Congressional Record, Hon. J. F. Fitzgerald ; Our Dumb Animals, Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; Youth's Companion, Mrs. Frank Barker.
Magazines same as last year with addition of Munsey's, Mc- Clure's, and Harper's Weekly.
The financial statement will be found in the Selectmen's Re- port. The Trustees recommend the same appropriation as last year, $400 for current expenses, and $200 for new books.
LUTHER CONANT, for the Trustees.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
School Committee
OF THE
TOWN OF ACTON, MASS.,
1895=96.
RATED
ONI
-1735
ACTON.
ACTON, MASS .: THE ENTERPRISE PRINTING COMPANY, IS96.
Report of the School Committee.
To the Citizens of Acton :
In presenting our annual report we are glad to be able to congratulate you upon the condition of the schools as a whole, and upon the progress made in them during the year. The report of the Superintendent of Schools, incorporated in and made a part of this report, affords detailed information upon this subject.
The efficient work of the Superintendent is gratefully recog- nized by this board, as we believe that it is by all of the citizens of the town. That the relations existing between the Committee and the Superintendent have, from the beginning, been those of perfect harmony and confidence is matter for congratulation.
There is urgent need of more room for the accommodation of the High School. Your attention was invited to this matter in our last annual report and at the town meeting in April, '95, ref- erence of it was made to the board of selectmen. The necessary room may be obtained by the erectionof a building for the use of the High School, by the enlargement of the school building at South Acton, or temporarily and unsatisfactorily, by alterations in the rooms now occupied by the school. If its work is to be effect- ively done the school must have a second assistant teacher. With that increase in the teaching force the necessity for more room than can be obtained in the existing house will become im- perative.
Under a recent statute towns not maintaining a High School and having a valuation of less than $500,000 are entitled to re- payment by the Commonwealth of all sums expended by them for the tuition of their children in the High Schools of other towns ; provided that such High Schools are approved by the State Board of Education. P
The 'Acton High School has been so approved temporarily. There is grave doubt whether this approval will be made per-
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manent unless the teaching force is increased. The present income on account of out of town pupils is about $100.00 a year, with every prospect of a larger revenue from this source in the future.
There have been expended by the town for the transporta- tion of pupils of the High School $261.00 in '94, $585.50 in '95, and $454.50 in '96, an aggregate in the three years of $1301.00, and a yearly average of $433.66, the income, roughly speaking, of $8,700.00 at 5 per cent. In the opinion of your committee this expenditure is altogether disproportioned to the benefits resulting from it. Parents sufficiently ambitious for the future of their children to send them to the High School ought, it would seem, under any ordinary circumstances, to be willing to provide for their transportation, especially in view of the fact that these children are of an age to care for themselves in a very consider- able degree, and that from the time a child enters school until he leaves it the parent is subjected to no direct expense on account of his education.
After careful consideration of this subject your committee is of the opinion that no further payments should be made by the town on account of transportation of High School pupils, except, perhaps in the instance of pupils living in North Acton. Because of the extremely isolated situation of these pupils we suggest the allowance to them of a small sum on account of transportation, and recommend the appropriation of $60.00 for this purpose.
The money which has been devoted to payments on account of transportation of High School pupils in each of the last two years would, under a proper appropriation, provide for the salary of an additional assistance in the High School, or would enable us to employ a special instructor in music and drawing for all the schools. Applied to either of these purposes, preferably the former, a tangible, lasting and general benefit would result.
In our last annual report it was pointed out that through pressure of members in the Center School the committee might find itself obliged, in the near future, to establish another school in that village. Such action became necessary early in the fall term. Accordingly the ungraded school was closed on October 11th, and on the 14th of that month a Primary and a Grammar school were so established in its place. Permission to attend the
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TOWN OF ACTON.
Center Grammar School was given to such pupils in the 8th Grade in the East School as desired to avail themselves of the advan- tages it offered them. Both of these new schools are doing ex- cellent work.
Your attention is again requested to the propriety of grant- ing an appropriation for the transportation to the Center Schools of the pupils now attending the ungraded schools in the East and North villages. In our reports for 1894 and 1895 we have presented to you at length the reasons for such action.
We desire to confirm the statements then made and to again express our convictions, strengthened with the passage of time, that the welfare of the pupils in the ungraded schools urgently demands the consolidation of these schools with those at the Center.
The study of drawing in the common schools being required by statute, and a knowledge of the art having recently been made one of the requirements for admission to the Normal Schools, the study was introduced into all the grades of all the schools at the beginning of the fall term. The results thus far attained are gratifying.
The introduction of improved methods of heating into the school buildings at South and West Acton has contributed greatly to the physical comfort of teachers and pupils, and has consequently improved the conditions of effective work.
During the year the High School has received from friends of the school the gifts of a piano and of Mr. Arthur F. Davis' etching, " The Minute Men of Acton." The South Grammar School has received from its teacher and pupils a small, well selected library and several valuable photographs and engravings. These gifts have been accepted by the committee on behalf of the town for the use of the respective schools.
The report of the purchasing agent of the board is published herewith. We recommend the appropriation of $475.00, the amount appropriated last year, for the purchase of text-books and supplies.
The appropriation of $100.00 for the purchase of apparatus and books of reference for the use of the High School has been expended as follows : Apparatus $58.45, books $28.01, chemicals
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$22.29 ; total $108.75. The sum of $150.00 is needed for this purpose this year and we recommend that it be so appropriated.
The sum of $375.00 has been received from the state on ac- count of salary of the Superintendent for the years 1894-95.
Mr. Eben H. Davis, Superintendent of Schools of Chelsea, has in response to our request, very kindly permitted us to publish herewith the interesting address delivered by him in June, 1895, before the graduating class of the Acton High School.
In submitting to you our estimates of expenses for the coming year we wish to say that, pending action by the town in the matter of increased accommodations for the High School, and upon the question of consolidation of schools, we do not feel at liberty to present other estimates than those necessary for the continuance of the existing establishment.
Summary of Receipts and Expenditures on Account of Schools for the Year 1895-96.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation for common schools, $2,800 00
66
High School, 1,600 00
66
school supplies, 475 00
66 transportation S. E. pupils,
180 00
66
" transporting H. S.
pupils, 575 00
66
apparatus and books of reference, 100 00
66
salary of superinten- dent, 475 00
Receipts from Mass. school fund,
235 35
66 dog taxes,
211 47
66
fees for tuition in High School, 75 33
$6,727 15
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TOWN OF ACTON.
EXPENDITURES.
For common schools,
$3,289 31
High School,
1,631 43
school supplies,
496 50 .
" transportation S. E. pupils,
180 00
H. S. pupils,
454 50
66 apparatus and books of re- ference,
108 75
salary of superintendent,
465 00
$6,625 49
Unexpended balance,
$101 66
Appropriations for support of schools recommended for the year 1896 -- 97.
For common schools,
$3,100 00
High School,
1,600 00
school supplies,
475 00
transportation S. E. pupils,
180 00
H. S. pupils,
60 00
apparatus, etc., for High School,
150 00
66 salary of superintendent,
475 00
$6,040 00
For the school committee,
CHAS. J. WILLIAMS, Chairman.
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.
Superintendent's Report.
School Committee of Acton :
GENTLEMEN :- The following report for the year is respect- fully submitted.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS.
Number of children in town, May 1, 1895, between 5
and 15 years of age, 260
Number of children in town, May 1, 1895, between 8 and 14 years of age, 161
Whole number of pupils enrolled in all the schools, 315
Number of pupils under 5 years of age, 0
Number of pupils over 15 years of age, 46
Number of pupils between 8 and 14 years of age, 175
Average membership of all the schools, 272.17
Average attendance of all the schools, 260.02
Per cent. of attendance of all the schools, 95.5
Compared with last year, the number of children between five and fifteen years of age is four less, the number between eight and fourteen years of age, the same, the total enrollment eight less, the average membership four less. The average attendance and per cent. of attendance are a little higher. The per cent. is exceptionally good.
In the month of June, Mr. Start, a special agent of the State Board of Education visited our schools and made a careful ex- amination of the school records for the purpose of ascertaining whether there had been any violations of the law for compulsory school attendance. I am glad to state that not one clear violation of the law was discovered; also that the School Committee's records and teachers' registers were found to be so accurately kept that Mr. Start's investigation was greatly facilitated thereby.
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TOWN OF ACTON.
STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR.
Schools.
Enroll- ment.
Average Memb'ship
Average Attendance
Number of pupils neither absent nor tardy.
Tardy
Dis- Marks. missals.
Spring Term.
Fall Term.
Winter Term.
High,
57
54.96
52.63
3
17
9
251
188
So.Grammar,
33
30.14
27.4
4
7
6
156
87
So. Primary,
50
40. I
38.1
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