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No. 5. Mixed at East Carver.
The mixed school at East Head was closed after a fifteen weeks' term, to accommodate as usual cranberry picking.
No. 8 Mixed was abolished from necessity, at the close of the summer term, there being only four scholars left to constitute a school, two of whom have since moved from town, while the others are now members of Grammar No. 4.
The teachers employed at the close of the year are as follows : Ist Grammar, Mr. Elmer B. Perkins.
4th Grammar, Miss Vesta B. Shaw.
Ist Primary, Miss Lela B. Thomas.
4th Primary, Miss Edith L. Barrows.
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3d Mixed, Miss Mary E. Flynn. 2d Mixed, Mr. Ellis G. Cornish. 5th Mixed, Ist term, Mrs. R. W. Benson. 5th Mixed, 2d term, Miss Katharine T. Washburn. 5th Mixed, 3d term, Miss Sarah L. Howes. Sth Mixed, Ist term, Miss A. E. C. Harvey.
STATISTICS.
No. of scholars enrolled, 166.
Average membership, 135.43-81 per cent.
Average attendance, 114.56-68 per cent.
No. of scholars in town May Ist, between 5 and 15 years, 159.
No. between 8 and 14 years, 112.
No. attending under 5, I.
No. attending over 15, 13.
Cost per scholar, $17.20.
BY SCHOOLS.
Length School.
AV. MEM.
AV. AT.
w.
D.
Ist Grammar,
13.27
12.18
34
4th Grammar,
16
14.90
34
Ist Primary,
20.97
18.37
33
4th Primary,
20.94
16.39
34
No. 2 Mixed,
II.24
9.72
31
3
No. 3 Mixed,
21.71
17.27
30
2
No. 5 Mixed,
14.67
12.88
31
4
No. 8 Mixed,
7.48
5.72
15
East Head,
8.76
6.78
15
VISITS.
There have been 182 visits from parents and citizens to our schools during the year, besides the committee.
We have procured three flags in accordance to law, and poles for them to be erected upon, on all pleasant days, which we
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believe to be in harmony with the spirit of patriotism existing in every home in town. Glory to the flag !
ROLL OF HONOR. No. I Primary.
John F. Atwood, 2 terms. Clifford Shurtleff, 2 terms.
Harold C. Mckay, I term. R. Arthur Shurtleff, I term. Clarabell Shurtleff, I term. No. I Grammar.
Chester Rickard, 3 terms. Jay A. Ward, 2 terms.
Edwin B. Atwood, I term. Goldie Shurtleff, I term. E. Lena Shurtleff, I term. No. 4 Primary.
Ella Carlson, I term. Chester Atwood, I term. Arthur Burke, I term.
Julian Southworth, 2 terms.
Elmer McFarlin, I term.
Justin Southworth, I term.
Bernard Shaw, I term. Lester Swift, I term.
No. 4 Grammar.
Grace Gammons, 3 terms. Blanche Tillson, I term.
Eddie Burke, I term.
Susie Crocker, I term.
Arthur Nickerson, I term.
Adalieta Shaw, 1 term. Francis Atwood, I term.
Edna Briggs, I term. Helena McFarlin, I term. Harry Swift, I term. No. 3 Mixed.
Marion Amanda Pratt, 3 terms. Solon Cornish, I term. Ellsworth V. Shaw, 2 terms. Paul Cornish, I term. Myrtle Shaw, 2 terms. * Alfred Freeman. No. 5 Mixed.
Ira Dimond, I term. A. Carlton Dimond, 2 terms. Elmer Lewis, I term. No. 8 Mixed. N. F. Atwood, I term. East Head. Elsie Watkins.
*Omitted last year by mistake.
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SCHOOL APPROPRIATIONS AND FUNDS.
To balance from 1895.
$203 35
Amount raised by tax.
1,850 00
Amount received from State fund.
335 35
Amount received from dog tax, .
156 85
Amount received from Pratt fund. 100 00
Amount received from Ellis fund,
190 00
$2,835 55
CR.
Expenditures :-
By teachers' salaries,
$2,131 25
Fuel,
128 69
Janitors' bills,
68 25
Cleaning schoolhouses.
IO 25
2,338 44
$497 I
TEXT-BOOKS.
To amount balance from 1895.
$95 97
Amount of appropriation,
100 00
$195 97
CR.
By cash for books as per bills. 148 64
REPAIRS OF SCHOOLHOUSES.
To balance from 1895. .
$130 72
Raised and appropriated.
50 00
$ISO 72
CR.
By expenditures as per bills.
42 51
$138 21 Balance, .
$47 33
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The Committee recommend the following sums for 1896 :-
For teachers' wages, fuel and janitors' services, $1,500 00
For repairs of schoolhouses, 100 00
For conveyance of scholars, 150 00
For text-books and supplies,
. 200 00
REMARKS IN DETAIL.
In speaking of the details of supervision we come to a vital characteristic of our work connected with the daily routine of teachers' and pupils' duties in their schoolroom homes. We ob- serve much excellence in character, motive, and organization, in carrying forward their methods of instruction, and dicipline, to develop satisfactory results, which are seen in some features of their work more than in others. We can truthfully award to our teachers faithfulness and virtue, in their work with the children, which are among the ideal requisites of a good teacher's practical example and instruction.
All labor in whatever it is employed is progressive and remun- erative just in proportion as the best means are used to equip the employe and workshop.
The farmer, the physician, the manufacturer, the banker, the artist, yes, all representatives of modern industry, are compelled by force of the growth of competition in the open sale's market to utilize every economic and inventive means in the production and manufacture of their goods for commercial exchange and con- sumption. Every thing we make or purchase is the outgrowth of the investment of capital in modern facilities. Not a man of us would work our farms today from our father's standpoint. They were well enough then, for all other farmers were like them. Not a mill man of you would run his plant with old style apparatus ; nor the only foundry company in town, whose sagacity and enter- prise date back to the struggles in their early beginnings, would venture to run a pound of melted ore into their old patterns for stoves and hollow ware for competitive sale and profit. Usually private interests are consulted first, then the interests of the town or the public.
In our common schools nearly a score of years has elapsed since
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a beginning was made in grading. At that time four schools were partly graded and the experiment has been successful, as all will testify. The others, or inside schools, still have the mixed system, a detrimental element in all their school work. By it delays are occasioned, loss of time in leaving topics before they are properly considered, alternating studies to enable the teacher to start on a wide plan, or bridge over embarrassments. This should not be so. The children are losing a large share of their school life by the system which we have been obliged to continue. We think the remedy should be used. You have given us a good opportunity in a few years past to observe the working of these damaging agencies in our schools. We are behind other indus- tries of private enterprise in our own town. Other towns are giving their children better opportunities, and our children are at- tending their schools at a large outlay every year. We think the remedy is largely in our own hands. Our people are asking for it. The State in her generosity is offering large inducements for towns like ours to revolutionize their system of school instruction, before we may be compelled to do it at the instance of State medi- ation. We think all our schools should be run on the same plan, that all may receive equal benefits and good results.
Some of our schoolrooms should be reconstructed or give place to the new ones of larger capacity, and more perfect arrange- ments, and placed in better locations. The seats, ventilation, methods of heating and lighting, as well as location, are among the defects in our schoolhouses. We recommend a careful inspec- tion of your school system, with a view to enhance the annual out- lay of our school money and make our schools equal in value to any in the State.
Respectfully submitted, EBEN S. LUCAS, Chairman. GUSTAVUS ATWOOD, Secretary.
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Report of Trustees of Town Library.
In submitting our first annual report we can say but little except to congratulate the friends of the library upon its auspicious opening.
At our last annual meeting, under the law of 1890, the town voted an appropriation of twenty-five dollars, by which action we were granted books from the State to the value of one hundred dollars. With these books as a nucleus, we feel confident that the library will grow through annual additions from the town, and from private donations, to become an established institution in Carver.
The room in the town hall occupied by the W. C. T. U. has been fitted for a library building, and since its opening, on Jan. Ist, the people have manifested a lively interest.
We publish below a catalogue of books in the library to date, and in years to come we recommend only that additions be printed in the annual town report.
Respectfully submitted,
ALBERT T. SHURTLEFF, HENRY S. GRIFFITH, NELSON SHERMAN, Trustees of Public Library.
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CATALOGUE OF BOOKS.
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Adams, Charles Francis. No.
Three Episodes of Massachusetts History I
Three Episodes of Massachusetts History 2 Adams, John and Abigail.
Letters of John Adams and his wife. 3
Adams, W. D.
Page, Squire and Knight. 4 Agassiz, Louis.
His Life and Correspondence
5
Geological Sketches
7
Methods of Study in Natural History
8
Geological Sketches
9
Alcott, Louisa M.
Jo's Boys. IO
Alexander, Mrs.
The Freres II
Allen, Stanton P. Down in Dixie I2
Allen, W. B.
Red Mountain of Alaska
T3
Austin, George L.
Life of Wendell Phillips
14
Austin, Jane G.
David Alden's Daughter. 15
Standish of Standish . 16
Nameless Nobleman. 17
Betty Alden 18
Dr. LeBaron 19
Bailey, L. H. Jr. Talks Afield. 20
Ballou, Maturin M.
Equatorial America 21
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Bamford, M. E. No.
Up and Down the Brooks. 22
Look About Club (2d year) 23
Barr, Amelia E.
Friend Olivia . 24
Bellamy, Edward.
Looking Backward. 25
Black, William.
Princess of Thule . 26
Bliss, William R.
Colonial Times in Buzzards Bay 27
Brooks, E. S.
Century Book for Young Americans 28
Brooks, Henry M.
Days of the Spinning Wheel. 29
Strange and Curious Punishments. 30
Brown, E. E. Life of Lowell . 31
Brown, John.
Rab and His Friends 32
Bulwer, E. L.
Last Days of Pompeii . 33
Bunner, H. C. Zadoc Piere 34
Bunyan, John.
Pilgrim's Progress 35
Burnett, Mrs. F. H.
Theo
36
Burnham, Clara Louise.
Clover .
37
Mistress of Beech Knoll 38
Burroughs, John.
Birds, Bees, etc.
Butolph, C. E. 39
Our Great Statesmen 40
Our Great Statesmen 41
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Butterworth, Hezekiah. No. Young Folks' History of Boston 42
Byron, George Gordon. Childe Harold 43
Bynner, E. L. Zachary Phips. 44
Cervantes, M. de. Don Quixote 45
Classic Essays . 46
Champney, Lizzie W.
All Around a Palette
47
Charles, Mrs. A.
Three Martyrs of the 19th Century.
48
Chautauqua Young Folks' Annual, 1882. 49 Chester, E.
Girls and Women 50
Child Life in Labrador 51
Coffin, Charles Carleton.
Daughters of the Revolution
52
Columbia's Emblem. 53
Cooke, John Esten.
Story of Virginia. 54
Cooper, J. Fenimore.
55
Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Spy 56
The Pilot, Red Rover, Two Admirals. 57
The Sea Lions Afloat and Ashore, Water Witch.
58
The Crater, Miles Wallingford, Homeward Bound. Home as Found, The Chainbearer, The Redskins 60
59
Wyandotte, The Monikins, Jack Tier. 61
Oak Openings, Satanstoe, Marcedes of Castil. 62
Ways of the Hour, Wing and Wing, Wept of the Wish- Ton-Wish 63
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Cox, M. M.
Jack Brereton 65
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Crawford, Francis M. No.
Marzio's Crucifix 66
Paul Patoff. 67
Marion Darche 68
The Three Fates 69
Pertio Ghislen 70
Dana, Richard H., Jr.
Two Years Before the Mast 71
De Foe, Daniel.
Robinson Crusoe 72
Dickens, Charles.
Christmas Stories. 73
Our Mutual Friend 74
Martin Chuzzlewit 75
Bleak House. 76
Dombey and Son 77
Great Expectations 78
Tale of Two Cities 79
Child's History of England 80
Pickwick Papers. 81
Nicholas Nickleby . 82
Eliot, George.
Felix Holt, The Spanish Gypsy, Jubal and Other Poems 83
Romola, Theophrastus Such 84
Adam Bede, Scenes of Clerical Life. 85
The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner 86
Middle March. 87
Daniel Deronda , 88
Famous Warriors
89
Favorite Poems 90
Fiske, John.
War of Independence. 91
Discovery of America. (Vol. I) . 92
Discovery of America. (Vol. 2). 93
American Revolution. (Vol. I). 94
American Revolution. (Vol. 2) . 95
Critical Period of American History 96
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Fiske, John. No.
Beginnings of New England. 97 Franklin, Benjamin.
Autobiography . 98 Garrison, William L.
1805-1835. Vol. I 99
1835-1840. Vol. 2. IO0
1841-1860. Vol. 3. IOI 1861-1879. Vol. 4 . . IO2 Gilman, N. P.
Socialism and the American Spirit 103 Goldsmith, Oliver.
Vicar of Wakefield.
Grant, U. S. IO4
Personal Memoirs. (Vol. I). IO5
Personal Memoirs. (Vol. 2) 106
Greene, Homer.
Coal and Coal Mines IO7
Griffis, William Elliot. Brave Little Holland
108
Japan. .
.
109
Hale, Edward Everett.
Life of Columbus IIO
Hardy, Thomas.
The Trumpet Major III
Harte, Bret.
Luck of Roaring Camp II2
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
Grandfather's Chair 113
Wonder Book .
114
Tanglewood Tales.
115
Mosses From An Old Manse 116
Seven Gables.
II7
Snow Image .. 118
Twice Told Tales 611
Blithedale Romance I20
The Scarlet Letter I21
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Henty, G. A. No.
By Pyke and Dyke. I22 In Freedom's Cause 123
Under Drake's Flag 124
Higginson, Mrs. S. J. Java 125
Holland, J. G.
Sevenoaks I26
Arthur Bonnicastle I27
Hosmer, James K.
Life of Sam Adams I28
Household of McNeil 129
Ingersoll, Ernest. The Silver Caves 130
Iron, Ralph.
Story of an African Farm
131
James, Henry. London Life . I32
Jerome, Jerome K.
Three Men in a Boat
Jeter, J. B. I33
American Women in China
I34
Keightley, Thomas.
Popular History of Greece
Kingsley, Charles. 135
Alton Locke. 136
The Heroes I37
Westward Ho 138 Kneeland, Samuel.
An American in Iceland 139
Ladders of Learning. 140
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare
Larcom, Lucy. 141
New England Girlhood. 142
Liza . I43
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Lodge, Henry Cabot. No.
George Washington. (Vol. I) . 144
George Washington. (Vol. 2) 145
Life of Alexander Hamilton. 146
Longfellow, H. W. Poems, Cambridge ed .. 147
Lowell, James Russell.
Under the Old Elm, etc. 148
MacDonald, George. Donald Grant. 149
There and Back. 150
Menzies.
History of France 151
Merriam, Florence A.
Birds Through an Opera Glass
Modern Classics. 152
Culture, etc., Books' Power. 153
Barry Cornwall, Christmas Carol. 154
Rab, etc., Leech, Thackeray .. 155 Ancient Rome, etc., Scottish Cavaliers 156
Hawthorne, White Hills, New England. 157
Carlyle's Cromwell, Hawthorne's Tales 158
Holmes' Favorite Poems, and My Hunt After the Captain 159
My Garden Acquaintance, etc., Farmer's Boy 160
Moore, James.
Life of Kilpatrick . 161
Morris, William.
Atlanta's Race and Other Tales 162
Morse, John T., Jr.
Life of Lincoln 163
Life of Lincoln. 164
Life of Thomas Jefferson 165
New England Magazine. Vol. 4. 166
New England Magazine. Vol. 5 . 167
New England Magazine. Vol. 6. 168
New England Magazine. Vol. 7. 169
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Nichols, Laura'D. No
Overhead 170
One Hundred Years of a Nation's Life 171
O'Rell, Max.
English Pharisees and French Crocodiles I72
Oswald, Felix L.
Days and Nights in the Tropics. . 173
Our Little Men and Women, 1890. 174
Pittenger, William.
Great Locomotive Chase. 175
Putnam, M. Louise.
Life of Lincoln
Reid, Mayne. 176
Forest Exiles 177
Bush Boys. 178
Stories About Animals 179
Repplier, Agnes.
Book of Famous Verse I SO
Roberts, Miss.
Noblesse Oblige 18I
Roe, E. P.
Nature's Serial Story I82
Knight of the Nineteenth Century 183
Barriers Burned Away 184
Driven Back to Eden 185
Face Illumined . 186
Romantic Tales.
William Black, E. M. Clerke, Shorthouse and Others 187 Ouida, Charles Reade, The Duchess and Others. I88 Mrs. Forrester, A. Mary E. Robinson, Juliana H. Ewing and Others. 189
Hugh Conway, E. C. Poynter, Greniville Murry and Others 190
Thomas Hardy, F. Austey, W. E. Norris and Others 191 Walter Besant, Wilkie Collins, Alphonse Daudet and Others . 192
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St. Pierre, J. H. B. No. Paul and Virginia. 193 Scott, Walter.
Lady of the Lake. 194
Marmion . 195
Lay of the Last Minstrel 196
Ivanhoe .
197
Waverley 198 Abbott. 199
Monastery . 200
Rob Roy.
201
Guy Mannering .
202
Scudder, H. E.
George Washington 203
Smucker, Samuel M.
Arctic Discovery 204
Soley, J. Russell.
Sailor Boys of IS61 205
Stockton, Frank R.
Pomona's Travels . 206
Story of a Mountain 207
Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom's Cabin 208
Sumner, William G.
Life of Jackson. 209
Swiss Family Robinson 210
Syrian Home Life. 2II
Thackeray. W. M. Philip and Catherine. 212
Virginians. 213
Esmond Lyndon Duval. 214
Paris, English and Irish Sketches 215
Tennyson, Alfred.
Select Poems . 216
Enoch Arden and Other Poems 217
The Princess 2IS
In Memoriam 219
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Trelawney.
No.
Adventures of a Younger Son 220 Verne, Jules.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
221
Mysterious Island 222 White, Sally Joy.
Housekeepers, Home Makers 223
Whittier, John G.
Poems, Cambridge ed. 224
Winthrop, Theodore. John Brent. 225
Yonge, Charlotte M.
226
Chaplet of Pearls
227
Golden Deeds
228
BOOKS DONATED :
By Hon. Peleg McFarlin and Miss Helena McFarlin.
Arthur, T. S. No.
Friends and Neighbors 229
Bell, Catherine D.
Hope Campbell
230
Rosa's Wish 231
Blitz, Pro.
Indoor Sports 232
Clement, J.
Memoir of Adoniram Judson 233
Cummings, T. H.
Webster Centennial 234
Cummins, Maria S.
Mabel Vaughan. 235
Dennison, Mrs. M. A.
Home Pictures.
236
Dickens, Charles.
Tale of Two Cities 237
Dunning, Mrs. A. K.
Story of Four Lives. 238
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Eastman, Mrs. M. H. No. Aunt Phillis' Cabin 239
Ellet, Mrs.
Evenings at Woodlawn 240
Green, Reuben, M. D.
Problem of Health 241
Gurnsey, Lucy Ellen. Winifred 242
Hanaford, Phebe A.
Daughters of America 243
Hardy, T.
A Pair of Blue Eyes. 244
Heartley, Cicil B.
The Three Mrs. Judsons 245
Holland, J. G. Mysteries of a Manse 246
Iota. A Yellow Aster . 247
Kavanagh, Julia.
Woman in France. 248
Kingsley, Charles. Alton Locke. 249
Lothrop, Amy.
Casper and His Friends. 250
Mr. Rutherfort's Children 251
Sybil and Chyrssa . 252
Karl Krinken
253
Hard Maple
254
Magoon, E. L.
Republican Christianity 255
Marion, F.
Wonders of Optics 256
Matthews, J.
Bessie at the Seaside 257
Bessie in the City. 258
Bessie with her Friends 259
Bessie Among the Mountains 260
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Matthews, J. No.
Bessie at School 261 Bessie's Travels 262
McClure, M. D.
The Gentleman's Stable Guide. 263
McKen, Phebe F. Thornton Hall. 264
Montgomery, Florence.
Misunderstood 265
Moulton, L. C. Bedtime Stories 266
Muloch, Miss.
The Cousin from India 267
Little Sunshine's Holiday 268
Twenty Years Ago .. 269
A Woman's Thoughts About Women 270 Porter, Noah.
Books and Reading 27I
Prentiss, E.
Aunt Jane's Hero. 272
Nidworth and His Three Magic Wands 273
The Flower of the Family . 274
Quimby, G. W. 1 Sermons and Prayers Redfield. 275
Cosasdeespana 276
Sargent, G. E.
Sunday Evenings at North Cort 277
Sewell.
History of the Early Church. 278
Talmage, T. DeWitt.
Beautiful Story 279
Tennyson, Alfred.
Poetical Works. 280
Thorold, Anthony W. Rev.
Presents of Christ 28 I
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Ulbach, Louis. No. Madam Gosselin 282
Whittier, J. G.
Miriam and Other Poems. 283
Whyte, Melville, G. J. Uncle John . 284
Winthrop, Sophie.
Miss Roberts' Fortune.
Miscellaneous. 285
Baptista. 286
Darkness and Daylight. 287
Gertie and May. 288
The Gentle Life. 289
Theo Gray's First Year Out of School 290
Outdoor Sports. 291
By Frederick Anderson.
Bellamy Edward, and Others.
Socialism and Fabian Essays. 292
Blathford, Robert.
Merrie England. 293
Three Arena Magazines and Consular Reports.
By John B. Hatch.
Wayland, Francis.
Memoirs of Rev. Dr. Judson. Vol. I . 294
Memoirs of Rev. Dr. Judson. Vol. 2. 295
By Mrs. Mary E. Dimond.
One hundred and sixty numbers of Harper's Magazine.
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