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The subject of public school education is receiving marked attention everywhere. It is the purpose of the pub- lic school to help in preparing the children for the duties of life and citizenship, and to this end may it not justly expect the sympathy and support of the entire community ?
The schools of Massachusetts have attained a high de- gree of efficiency and the value of her educational system is recognized throughout the country. A comparatively recent report of U. S. Commissioner Hon. W. T. Harris, states that each child in Massachusetts receives on an average seven years' schooling, while each child in the nation receives only four and three-tenths years. Thus each child in the Com- monwealth receives on an average 63 percent more schooling than each child in the nation at large.
He quotes from the report of the Massachusetts Labor Bureau of Statistics to the effect that the average daily wealth producing power of each man, woman and child in the state is 66 cents per working day, while in the nation at large the average production is 37 cents per working day. Thus the average wealth producing power of each man,
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woman and child in Massachusetts is 78 percent greater than a similar average in the nation at large. From these state- ments may we not infer that the prosperity of a community depends largely upon its educational advantages ?
The schools of Acton should, and we believe do, com- pare favorably in their efficiency with the best schools in similar towns throughout the state. Upon November 13 Mr .. Walter Sargent, assistant State Supervisor of Drawing, spent the day in inspecting the work of our schools and expressed himself as being much pleased with the readiness and intel- ligence with which the pupils responded to his test questions. He considered them exceptionally wide awake and well trained. His work, taking him as it does into schools all over the state, enables him to speak from wide observation and experience and causes us to highly value his opinion.
TEACHERS.
It is a matter for congratulation, notwithstanding frequent change of teachers, that we are enabled to maintain so high a standard in the teaching corps. We believe that, upon the whole, the corps has never been more faithful and efficient than at the present time. However, we undoubtedly should be the gainers if we could make it an inducement for them to remain for a longer term of service.
In June, Miss Cora Warren, who had taught several years in the Center Primary, resigned for rest and further study, and the Committee were fortunate in securing the services of Miss Martha F. Smith, a town girl, who had been a model teacher for several years in the New Hampshire State Normal School. Miss Williams of the South Grammar accepted a position in Arlington, and Miss Bertha M. Bridges of the Farmington Normal School succeeded her. Miss Ginal of the South Intermediate accepted a school in New Jersey and Miss Nellie A. Willey was chosen as her successor. Miss Mary Adams of the South Primary was followed by Miss Eudora Gould, a model teacher in the Farmington Normal School.
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Miss Grace Webber resigned from the West Grammar School and Miss Jean Cragin from the West Intermediate, to engage in the work elsewhere. Miss Sarah Holland, a teacher of long experience, succeeded Miss Webber, and Miss Helen Tilden followed Miss Cragin. Near the close of the fall term Miss Holland and Miss Cragin withdrew, the latter to accept a school in Hingham, her home town, and Miss Blanche Clough (Smith 'OI) of Manchester, N. H., succeeded the former and Miss Lena Sewall, who had taught several years, followed the latter. The West Primary, under the efficient management of Mrs. Harriet Gardner, continues to do excel- lent work, and justly merits the confidence and support of parents and school officials.
The importance of good primary teaching cannot be over- estimated. Inasmuch as the first years of school work are, for the most part, years of preparation for the work to follow, it is of utmost importance that good habits be formed. Cor- rect observation and accurate statement of simple facts, con- centration of thought on simple subjects which easily hold the attention, and precise memory of matters which are readily retained.
THE HIGH SCHOOL.
The attendance during the year has been somewhat larger than that of last year and the interest shown and progress made by the pupils have been commendable. The work has followed lines heretofore marked out. Nothing new has been attempted, but much faithful effort has been given to increas- ing the efficiency of the prescribed work. We are fortunate in retaining Mr. Faxon's services and attention is called to his more detailed report of the work of the year.
Miss Katherine Hall, who creditably filled the position as as- sistant last year, resigned in October to accept a aimilar posi- tion at an increased salary in the Quincy High School. Miss Helen Waterman (Brown 'oo), who had taught two years in the Providence High School, was appointed as her successor.
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"The High School is the 'people's college,' and in its general aim should educate to make its pupils strong men and women, for the betterment of humanity. Specifically the High School should communicate to its pupils the elements of the highest culture ; it should bring the pupils into close contact with the life of the country and the times, and it awaken and widen the civic and higher human interests in the pupils and arouse the desire for an active life of service."
As there is no senior class this year there will be no grad- uation exercises next June. Next year there will be the full number of classes.
GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS.
Thanks to the well-directed efforts of your efficient School Committee, who spent much time and thought during the summer vacation in improving our school grounds and build- ings, our school premises are now in good condition, and are attractive, neat and pleasant.
PROMOTIONS.
The repular promotions are decided upon in June, but as a child shows ability to advance during the year he is pro- moted to the next higher grade. For a number of years promotions from grade to grade have been made to depend upon the judgment of the teacher, supplemented by that of the Superintendent in special cases.
No one is kept marking time, for it should be recognized that there is quite as much danger in undertaxing as in over- taxing the mind. Every pupil should have enough to do to call into healthful activity all his mental powers.
The question which teachers and superintendent try to answer before assigning a pupil to his place in the school is, " Where will he get the most good?" that is, " Where will he find, all things considered, the best opportunity for growth ? "
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GEOGRAPHY.
The science of Geography has been practically re-created in the past few years. The earth has become very much smaller through the marvelous inventions of the age ; rail- way, telegraph, steamship and telephone make the earth one neighborhood. The ever increasing intimacy of all the na- tions of the earth with one another, together with the fact of our expanding territory, has given the study of geography a new importance and made a knowledge of it more necessary.
" Geography is not a simple science by itself like botany, geology or astronomy, but a collection of sciences levied upon to describe the earth's surface as the dwelling place of man, and to explain something of its more prominent features."
Political geography, which formed the stock of much of the former geography teaching, should be relegated to his- tory, where it properly belongs. History is closely allied to structural geography.
The former teaching of geography gave the impression that the earth has always been just as it appears now, that climate depends solely on distance from the equator, and gave descriptions of countries, peoples and places, while the new teaching, with scientific thought as its basis, assumes that the earth, as we know it, is the result of a process of evolu- tion, "that what is has come from what was by means of processes still in operation."
It endeavors to make plain the processes by which land and water have taken their present form, and demands con- stant reasoning from cause to effect, instead of the mere memorizing of names and definitions. A study of the effects of land formation upon drainage, climate, agriculture, indus- tries and commerce constitute a most important part of the new geography. A pupil today knows vastly more of the different countries, of the characteristics and industries of of the people, than was formerly acquired by school children. What the present school children do not possess as fully as
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did their fathers and mothers is the ability to bound every State in the Union, to name and locate every capital and all the cities, and to trace the course of all the unimportant riv- ers. The non-essentials are being eliminated and teachers and pupils are putting time and attention upon the more vital topics.
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT.
We ask careful perusal of the following quotation from the school report of a neighboring town, which concerns the co-operation of parents and teachers :
" But after all, there is one consideration which must not be overlooked. In establishing a system of public schools the State never intended to release fathers and mothers from their sacred obligation to train and educate their children, but simply to assist them by providing facilities which ordinary means cannot procure. Co-operation then, between parents and teachers will not only give us better schools, but better children in the schools."
" Parents often ask, 'Are you giving us good schools ?' It is fair for us to ask them a few questions : 'Are you send- ing us good children?' ' Are they trained to the habits of prompt obedience ? '
"' Are other duties and pleasures allowed to interfere with school work ? '
"' Are your children allowed to speak disrespectfully of their teachers ? '
" ' When you speak of the teacher before them do you remember that she is a person of education, training and good moral character ? '
"' Do you teach your children to understand that the ha- bitual school offender bears the same relation to the school that the criminal does to the community ?'
" The methods of school management have changed some, but there is today the same need of regular attendance,
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punctuality, obedience, accuracy, thoroughness and co-opera- tion between the home and school that has been referred to in report after report for the past fifty years."
The increasing number of visits which parents are mak- ing to the schools indicate a desire to more thoroughly under- stand the conditions which surround their children when in the school-room.
Parents should become acquainted with the teacher and know her desires and aims in the school work. Then the home and school are mutually benefitted.
In conclusion I wish to express my appreciation for your continued support and for the hearty co-operation of teachers upon whom rests the burden of the work.
Respectfully submitted, HERBERT E. RICHARDSON.
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REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL.
MR. H. E. RICHARDSON,
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS :
Dear Sir - I have the pleasure of presenting the following report of the High School from Sept. 3, 1902.
Total enrollment, 30; average membership, 29; per cent. of attendance, 92.
Usually, during the first year in the High School, there are a number who find the work there beyond their reach and they are compelled to leave. But this year, of the entering class of 17, only one has dropped out. This would seem to indicate that the pupils are entering the High School much better prepared to cope with the difficulties that are to be encounterd there than heretofore.
One of the most difficult of the practical problems that the teacher encounters is, " How to secure regular attendance." It would seem as if this was a perplexity with which we ought not to be harassed. Parents should see that their children are always present and punctual at school. A little thoughtlessness or neg- lect on their part will often defeat the work of the school for their children. Also, I would request parents not to ask that their children be excused during school hours. The example is bad, and, moreover, it tends to give the child the impression that school work is of secondary importance. With the parents' co-operation and with the bright outlook for easy communication between the different villages of the town, there seems to me no good reason for such a poor showing in attendance in the future as has been the case in the past.
Next September will find our school with its full quota of classes. This will necessitate a lengthening of the present ses- sion till 2 p. m., or a return to two sessions, because of the increased amount of work that will arise.
It is our aim here in the High School, to place the pupils on their own responsibility and to allow them all the liberties that would be expected by adults. I am pleased to say that, with but few exceptions, they appreciate the privilege.
A number of books have been added during the past year to
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our reference library, and the school has been the recipient of a very handsome bust of Lincoln, and pedestal, a gift from the class of 1902.
Miss Katherine W. Hall resigned in October to accept a more lucrative position in the Quincy High School. Her position has been filled by Miss Helen Waterman, a graduate of Brown University.
Respectfully submitted, A. L. FAXON.
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TRUANT OFFICERS' REPORT. FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 1, 1903.
To the School Committee, Town of Acton, Mass. :
The Truant Officers submit their first annual report to the School Committee for the year ending March 1, 1903.
The Truant Officers submit the following list of pupils looked up for the year, the cause for their absence, and if truants the number that have been returned to school.
Whole number of pupils looked up, 6.
Cause of Absence.
South Acton.
West Acton.
Sickness,
0
0
Kept home by parent,
0
0
Clothing,
0
1
Tardiness,
0
0
Out of town,
0
0
Stormy weather,
0
0
Reported truants,
4
2
Truants caught and returned to school,
4
2
Truants caught and returned to other towns,
0
0
Uncaptured,
0
0
Center School,
0
0
High School pupils looked up,
0
0
Yours respectfully, MOSES A. REED, JAMES KINGSLEY, C. G. TURNER,
Truant Officers.
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Commencement Exercises of the Acton High School
At Town Hall, Acton, Mass., Thursday evening, June 19, 1902, 7.45 o'clock.
PROGRAMME.
1. March Orchestra .
2. Invocation Rev. Bernard Copping
3. Song -" Voices of the Woods". Chorus
4. Address -" Some Investments," Rev. O. S. Grey, Brookfield, Mass.
5. Overture -- " Orpheus " Offenbach Orchestra.
6. Song-" Hither, Fairies Trip," . Quartet Misses L. Pratt, B. Pratt, Fletcher and Jones.
7. Presentation of Diplomas . Supt. H. E. Richardson
8. " America " School
" Devotion to Duty."
GRADUATES. CLASSICAL COURSE. Mary Eliza Kinsley.
ENGLISH COURSE.
Lizzie Jones Brown, Albert Porter Durkee, John Hubbard Littlefield.
POST GRADUATE. Flora Blanche Reed.
COLORS - Blue and White.
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Roll of Honor for the Year Ending June 1902.
ONE YEAR.
Burroughs, Lizzie M.
Gilbert, Alfred
Greenough, Frank E.
Hastings, Ralph
Littlefield, Harold
McDonald, Agnes,
O'Connell, Alice
O'Connell, Margaret,
Piper, Ralph
Robbins, Hazel G.
Sawyer, Chester
Stancombe, Eva L.
Taylor, Marion C.
Two TERMS.
Boyce, Elmer,
Cram, Bertha
Harris, Arthur F.
Littlefield, John
Mekkelson, Ida
Mekkelson, Henry
Quimby, Margaret
Richardson, Julia
Sawyer, Benjamin Schnair, Ella
Schnair, Zara Wayne, James A.
ONE TERM.
Baker, Ella
Bixby, Edward Brewster, Irving
Boyce, Lena
Brown, Lizzie,
Estabrook, Fred
Clark, Lester
Coughlin, William C.
Cram, Lowell
Davidson, Guy
Devane, Thomas
Downie, Cora
Duren, Ethel
Durkee, Albert
Fowler, Gladys
French, Ruth
Greene, Bertha F.
Griswold, Ethel Harris, Eva M. Harris, Roy L. Heath, Bertha Holton, Edward
Goding, Arthur Griswold, George 1 Hall, Wessley Harris, V. Maud Harris, Bertha M. Hoar, Burton
Edwards, William
Calberg, Grace I. Fletcher, Elsie C.
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Jones, Mary E. Kinsley, David
Jones, Karl Kingman, Herbert
Lawrence, Eva M.
McCormick, Earl H. Mikkelson, Bertha
Lawrence, Mabel Merrill, Everett W. Mikkelson, Christine
Morse, Arthur
Munroe, Alexander
Nickerson, Marion
O'Connell, Lena
Owen, Wallace
Perkins, Louise
Phalen, Harold R.
Randall, Earl
Reed, Everett
Reed, Flora
Robinson, Roy,
Rudolph, Myrtle
Scanlon, Lizzie
Schnair, Cora
Schnair, Charles
Smiley, Charles
Stancombe, George
Symous, Harold
Taylor, William S.
Taylor, Martha
Thomas, Rosa
Thompson, Ethel E.
Thompson, Carl
Tuttle, Varnum
Tuttle, Gertrude M.
Wayne, John Wood, Helen A.
White, Florence
Worden, M. Florence
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Statistics For 1901=1902.
Grades
No. of weeks
Enrollment
Average
Membership
Average
Attendance
Percent of
Attendance
Between
7 and 14
Between
5 and 15
Over 15
High South Grammar
40
29
22
20.5
93
0
6
23
VII, VIII, 36
20
16
15
93
13
20
0
IX
36
40
36
33
92.5
40
40
0
66
Primary
I, II, III
36
57
45.6
39.6
86.6
24
50
0
Center Grammar
VII, VIII, 36 IX
28
26
23
88
21
23
5
Intermediate
IV, V, VI
36
36
33
29
87.7
35
36
0
Primary
I, II, III
36
30
26.5
23
88
14
27
0
West Grammar
VII, VIII, IX
36
24
20
18
90
14
20
4
Intermediate
IV, V, VI
36
40
33
31
94
36
37
0
Primary
I, II, III
36
46
36.7
36
98
25
45
0
Totals
350
29.4
26.8
91
222
304
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List of Teachers, 1902-1903.
SCHOOL
TEACHER
Appointed
EDUCATED
Salary
Principal
A. L. Faxon
1900
|Yale
$1,000
High
Assistant
HelenB. Waterman
1902 | Brown
500
South Grammar
Bertha M. Bridges
1902 Farmington
380
Intermediate
Jennie A. Willey
1902 Cambridge Training
380
6. Primary
Eudora W. Gould
1902 Farmington
380
Center Grammar
Sadie A. Collier
1901 Farmington 1899 Framingham
418
Primary
Martha F. Smith
1902 |Lowell
380
West Grammar
Blanche E Clough 1902 Smith
380
Intermediate
Lena E. Sewell
1902 Farmington
380
Primary
Harriet H.Gardner 1889 Ayer High
380
Intermediate
Ella L. Miller
454
Intermediate
IV, V. VI
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Statistics, Fall and Winter Term, 1902=1903.
SCHOOL
Number in
Each Grade
Grades
Enrollment
Average
Membership
Average
Attendance
Percent of
Attendance
Between
7 and 14
Between
5 and 15
Over 15
17
10th 11 th 12th
$30
29
27
92
1
a
24
5
1
10
8th
South Grammar
3
7th
19
18
17
94
=
19
0
South Inter.
15
5th
40
36.7
34
92
40
40
0
South Primary
17
2nd
A
50
44
87
32
54
0
Center Grammar
000
8th
29
27
25
91
19
26
w
Center Inter.
12
5th
35
34
31.7
93
35
35
0
Center Primary
0
2nd
38
30
27.8
92
18
20
0
V
3rd
7th
West Grammar
n
8th
20
19
18
93
18
V
O
West Intermediate
10
5th
37
35
31
88
36
36
O
West Primary
11
2nd
40
37.8
34
91
24
40
0
12
3rd
342
31.6
28.9
91
234
278
27
a
9th
4th
6th
20
1st
17
3rd
12
7th
9th
13
4th
6th
22
1st
4
9th
11
4th
16
6th
17
1st
Total
7
High
12
13
10
11
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Department of School Supplies.
Report of the Purchasing Agent.
To the School Committee :
I respectfully submit the expense account for this depart- ment for the financial year ending March 12, 1903 :
J. L. HAMMETT Co.
Mar. 18. 200 No. 12 spelling blanks, $2 50
2 gr. No. 556 Esterbrook ver- tical pens, 2 25
1 doz. qts. Treasury ink, 3 00
50 sheets grey bristol, 1 25
100 sheets Manilla tag, 50
5 packages of grey drawing paper, 1 80
1 doz. LePage paste, 50
100 packages No. 2,304 arith- metic paper, 12 00
75 sheets wrapping paper, 75
3 boxes No. 475 round pegs, 48
100 No. 140 blank books, 3 25
$28 28
April 28.
40 packages No. 3 paper, 9 20
12 packages No. 1 paper, 2 76
12 New Century maps, 3 60
15 56
May
1. 20 stories of Siegfred,
10 80
12 stories of Troy De Garmo, 3 78
14 stories of Ulysses,
6 30
3 Virginian,
4 20
10 lights to Literature, pt. 1, 2 25
3 Tan's Geography, pt. 1,
1 08
66 pt. 2, 1 08
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3 Tan's Geography, pt. 3, $2 03
66 66 pt. 4, 1 35
66
pt. 5, 1 35
4 Metcalf English Grammars, 2 16
36 38
May 7. 1 doz. qts. Treasury ink,
3 00-
3 00
May 8. 35 Fifty Famous Stories,
11 03-
11 03
May
29. 1 doz. qts. Treasury ink,
3 00-
3 00
May 31. 2 Lawton Duplicators,
7 15
1 package dectograph paper,
35
2 lbs. No. 120 Para erasers, 1 00
4322 doz. No. 787 colored pencils,
10 79
10 packages No. 211 paper,
1 60
6 boxes No. 470 paper,
1 92
3 boxes No. 475. paper,
48
6 boxes Little Artist,
1 20
3 packages blotters,
90
4 packages 00 medium drawing 6 × 9 1 28
6 packages 00 medium drawing 8 x 10}, 3 84
100 Cornhill pads,
3 75
15 packages blue line letter,
4 87
1 doz Treasury mucilage, 75
5 packages esnd paper disks,
75
May 29. 3, 4 Lawton Duplicator, 14 63
3 packages No. 25 decktograph letter, 1 05
1 package decktograph note,
25
1 letter size decktograph,
2 63
18 56
June 14. 58 orange pencils No. 787,
1 21-
1 21
Aug. 30. 7 gross No. 556 Esterbrook pens,
3 15-
3 15
July 26. 1 doz. rubber bands,
20-
20
Sept. 9. 120 No. 140 blank books,
4 20
6 letter size tablets,
34
40 63
4 54
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19. 1 package Dushane figure cards, 25
1 package Parish number cards, 12
37
Oct. 3. ¿ doz. pitch pipes, 80
3 clay bricks, 60
3 Cyrs' Primers, 65
2 05
4. 5 doz. Manilla note pads,
1 25-
1 25
Sept. 25. 10 doz. No. 140 blank books,
3 90
3 doz. Gem B. B. erasers,
2 50
1 1b. No. 120 Para erasers, 1000 manilla envelopes,
70
50
6 Hiawatha,
2 10
1 package No. 25 letter,
35
Siegfred,
3 60
13 65
Oct. 23. 1 doz. transparent slates,
50
4 Eggleston 1st bk. History,
2 16
2 66
Nov. 14. 1 doz. excelsior compasses,
1 00-
1 00
8. 1 m tag envelopes,
3 50-
3 50
190 02
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co.
Mar. 15. 2 Fiske Civil Governments,
10 20-
10 20
April 7. 65 Riverside Literature Series,
13 81
20
66
8 50
63 66 66
21 42
31 66
3 95
3 Fiske Civil Governments,
2 55
3 Bigelow Papers,
2 00
29. 2 Fiske Civil Governments,
1 70-
1 70
Oct. 24. 12 Hiawatha Primers,
4 08-
4 08
Nov. 28. 15 66
5 10-
- 5 10
52 23
73 31
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AMERICAN BOOK Co.
Mar. 18. 23 sets bookkeeping blanks, 12 00
Less 20 per cent, 2 40
9 60
Mar. 29. £ 6 sets book keeping blanks, 6 00
8 college check books, 1 00
1 Mory's Rome, 1 00
8 00
Less 20 per cent.,
1 60
Sept. 9. 6 Webster H. S. Dictionaries, 5 88
6 Smith Small Greece, 5 00
5 Eggleston American History, pt. 1, 4 20
15 08
Less one-fifth,
3 00
9. 10 book keeping blanks, 3 70 Less one-fifth, 74
2 96
Oct. 4. 6 Webster Primary Dictionaries, Less one-fifth, 57
2 88
2 31
Nov. 25. 4 National Advanced Geography, 5 00
7 Eggleston's American History, 1st Bk., 4 20
9 20
Less one-fifth,
1 84
7 36
Jan. 15. 6 Smith's Rome, Less one-fifth,
5 00
1 00
4 00
44 70
6 40
12 07
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EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.
Apr. 12. 12 Ulysses for young readers, 3 60
17 Cortez & Montezuma, 5 10
19 Morseland, 7 60
3 Pizarro, 90
24 54 Classics,
1 20
6 Robinson Crusoe for young readers, 1 80
20 20
Less one-sixth,
3 36
16 84
'GINN & Co.
April 7. 7 Seven Little Sisters,
3 50
45 Sketch books,
21 00
24 50
Less one-sixth,
4 08
20 42
25. 40 Prince Arithmetic,
6 67-
6 67
Sept. 3. 5 new school algebras,
6 72
4 L. Char. E. Composition and Rhetoric,
4 00
10 72
Less one-sixth,
1 99
8 93
13. 2 Silas Warner,
60
8 Physical Exercise Books,
2 80
1 Green's History,
1 12
4 52
Less one-sixth,
75
3 77
Oct. 4. 7 Gage Introduction to Physi- cal Science, 7 00
Less one-sixth, 1 17
5 83
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Town of Acton.
Jan.
2. 12 Cyr's Primers, Less one-sixth,
2 88
48
17. 4 Last of Mohicans, Less one-sixth,
2 00
33
1 67
31. 1 Les Miserables,
80
1 Last of Mohicans,
00
80
Less one-sixth,
13
67
Postage,
10
77
50 46
UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING CO.
Apr. 7. 31 Ivanhoe,
6 20
6 The Spy,
75
35 Knickerbocker Stories,
7 00
32 Lady of the Lake,
9 60
20 Christmas Stories,
2 50
32 Tales of Grandfather,
4 00
30 05
Less one-fifth,
6 01
24 04
SILVER, BURDETT & Co.
April 17. 24 Beacon Series, No. 77,
75
1 66 66
33,
03
78
25. 25 Beacon Series, No. 78,
75-
75
May 13. 20
66 93,
25 66
77, credit, 75
2 40
05
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Sept. 9. 5 Stepping Stones to Litera- ture, 1st Book, 1 50
10 Stepping Stones to Litera- ture, 2d Book, 4 00
2 Morsey History of England, 1 40
6 90
Less one-sixth, 1 15
5 75
27. 50 Cecil music books No. 3, 42 00
Less one-sixth, 7 00
35 00
42 33
MAYNARD, MERRILL & Co.
April 7. 17 English Classics No. 216, 1 70- 1 70
D. C. HEATH & Co.
May 17. 4 Usteil des Paris, 1 20
Less one-sixth, 20
1 00
Oct. 4. 6 Walsh Elementary Arithmetic, 1 80
Less one-sixth, 30
1 50
2 50
ALLYN & BACON.
Sept. 3. 12 Chardonals Complete French, 12 00
Less one-sixth, 2 00
10 00
EDWARD E. BABB.
Sept. 9. 4 Tans 1st Bk., Physical Geography, 3 67 2 Natural Advanced Geography, 1 75
2 Elementary Advanced Geography, 54
12 Metcalf English Grammars, 6 00
37
Town of Acton.
8 Normal Music Readers, Book 2, pt. 1, 2 60
14 56
13. 2 Botsford History of Greece, 1 84
16 30
NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.
July
1 map U. S., 1 25-
1 25
EXPRESS CHARGES.
Paid A. W. Rayner,
7 10
A. L. Noyes, A. L. Faxon,
13 60
1 00
21 70
$495 25
Credit supplies sold,
6 11
$489 14
CHARLES J. WILLIAMS, Purchasing Agent.
38
Annual Reports
Town Warrant.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS.
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