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Jan.
22
James A. Cromwell
12
1
9
Accidental Drowning
Wareham Plympton
Charles E. and Delia F. Bumpus Job C. and Nancy B. (Sherman) Ebenezer Cobb and Phebe Sherman
March 4
Jerusha W. Tillson
90
10
2
Senility
Carver
4
Harriet A Blanding
75
66
2
2
Pleurisy and Pneumonia
Carver
Stephen Reed and Matilda --- John and Rebecca (Blackman)
May
27
Eliza A. Thomas
67
1
18
Chronic Nephritis
Wareham
June
9
Mercy C. Vaughan
89
15
Phthisis Pulmonalis
Carver
9
Forest B. Perkins Isaac Shaw
9
11
4
Pulmonary Congestion
Carver
Carver
25
Lizzie G. Shurtleff
53
9
5
Typhoid Fever
Hingham
25
Lovell P. McKay
5
18
Cholera Infantum Senility
Carver
Sept.
14
Rebecca Churchill
90
1 18
Tuberculosis
Carver
Oct.
28 Sarah S. Nash
60
5 13
Paralysis
Mattapoisett
Elisha Dexter and Sarah (Wendali) Unknown
[Smith)
Unknown
William Nelson
55
Alcoholism and exposure
Unknown
Aug. 13
Mary I. Havens
41
Fatty degeneration of heart!
Chelsea
James H. Andrews and Josephine
73
11
11
Brights Disease
Feb.
Joseph S. Chandler
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James S. and Helen F. (Jones) Heman Crocker and Rebecca (Pratt) William and Ellen (Cox)
19
William J. Anderson
29
--
Carver
Timothy Bourne and Eliza Swift John Sherman and Eleanor (Barnes) Elmer B and Flora W. (Atwood) Isaac and Abigail (Thomas) [rel)
23
82
3
Cancer of lower jaw
Benjamin Studley and Mary A. (Dar-
Apoplexy
Dartmouth
26
Joseph T. McFarlin
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN CARVER IN 1907.
March 16. Edwin Neime and Ina Pisppanen, both of Wareham. April 7. Horace A. Vaughan of Middleboro and Helen E. Lucas.
April 27. Abraham L. Bumpus and Emily A. Blackwell.
June 26. Carl Z. Southworth and Elva B. Tillson.
July 13. Ellis S. Bumpus and Emma Hudson.
July 25. Robert W. Holmes and Mabel I. Peckham.
Aug. 30. Geo. H. Robinson and Jessie G. Garnett.
Aug. 31. Mattie Maki and Huldah Neimi.
Sept. 1. Rozeaira Dasteau and Diana Messier.
Oct. 12. John Anthony and Sophia Leo Farrise.
Oct. 22. Care N. Kalliji and Eva A. Hakala.
Dec. 14. Jesse A. Holmes and Blanche E. Vinal.
Dec. 23. William S. Dupuis of Boston and Helen F. Shaw.
SUMMARY.
Births, 19
Marriages,
13
Deaths,
16
Dogs licensed :-
Males, 106
Females,
10
HENRY S. GRIFFITH, Town Clerk.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
1907
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
FINANCES, YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1907.
Receipts-
General appropriation,
$4,000 00
State fund,
845 62
Pratt fund,
150 00
Tuition State wards,
36 00
Tuition Town of Plymouth,
24 48
Return on superintendent account,
200 00
Superintendent account from State,
300 00
Medical inspection,
20 00
Surplus from State fund,
617 17
Surplus from general fund,
247 21
Overdraft,
65 41
$6,505 89
Expenditures-
Teaching,
$4,156 95
Janitors,
291 11
Fuel,
244 47
Transportation,
68 00
Cleaning,
17 80
Repairs,
179 59
State Fund,
463 20
Supplies and incidentals,
484 77
Superintendent account,
600 00
$6,505 89
TEACHING.
Henry S. Griffith, 216 00
Elva B. Tillson, 216 00
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Sadie A. Bowen,
330 00
Laura Bump,
216 00
Ellis G. Cornish,
360 00
A. S. Burnham,
420 00
Mary Hadley,
350 00
Lula A. Pease,
315 00
Blanche Vinal,
297 00
Mrs. J. A. Holmes,
27 00
Ruth Padelford,
271 00
Nellie Barker,
330 70
Mrs. Minnie Swift,
12 00
Alice E. Howe,
9 50
George Spaulding,
210 00
Louise Newton,
150 00
Ethel H. Nash,
120 00
Marian Copeland,
120 00
Mary McConnell,
108 00
Mrs. Belding,
78 75
$4,156 95
Janitors.
Henry S. Griffith,
$9 00
Elva B. Tillson,
9 00
Sadie Bowen,
12 75
Laura Bump,
9 00
Lula Pease,
12 25
Alice Howe,
50
Mrs. J. A. Holmes,
1 50
Blanche Vinal,
11 00
Marian Copeland,
2 75
Ethel Nash,
2 75
Mary Connell,
3 75
Ellis G. Cornish,
125 00
E. C. Churchill,
91 86
$291 11
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Fuel.
O. W. Tillson, $ 2 65
E. H. Murdock, 88 00
B. W. Robbins,
47 80
Gustavus Atwood,
4 45
E. E. Shaw,
6 00
A. S. Perkins,
1 75
J. M. Bump,
47 12
George Blair,
2 00
Ellis Cornish,
2 13
John Penno,
1 25
George Lincoln,
9 60
H. F. Atwood,
2 25
N. F. Manter,
3 00
T. T. Vaughn,
7 26
J. E. Wrightington,
6 80
William Shaw,
4 56
W. D. Weeden,
2 35
P. J. Holmes,
50
$244 47
Transportation.
F. F. Tillson,
$18 00
Roswell Shurtleff,
50 00
$68 00
Cleaning.
Isadore Howland,
$6 20
Jessie Garnett,
6 00
Helen Pettey,
3 00
Mrs. Jane Thomas,
2 60
$17 80
Repairs.
J. A. Kenney,
$1 10
L. F. Morse,
3 00
G. E. Blair,
7 65
W. C. Richards,
3 35
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W. M. Shaw,
30 18
N. B. Winberg,
1 00
James Lewis,
10 00
Gustavus Atwood,
87
J. H. & B. Sears,
40 44
C. C. Perkins,
/ 10
J. M. Bump,
15 75
T. T. Vaughn,
10 18
T. E. Blandin,
17 63
Albert Shurtleff,
15 00
J. M. Jefferson,
15 00
$179 59
SUPPLIES AND INCIDENTALS.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
$30 69
Davis' Press, 22 50
Silver, Burdett & Co.,
29 55
Thompson, Brown & Co.,
10 75
Smith & Anthony Co.,
10 12
J. L. Hammett & Co.,
26 20
E. E. Babb & Co.,
143 39
Mrs. A. G. Shaw,
1 35
A. W. Peterson,
27 54
Eagle Pencil Co.,
21 00
Frost & Adams,
5 81
C. W. Humphrey,
12 91
J. B. Collingwood,
6 00
A. P. Little,
2 00
Wm. Beverly Harrison,
3 01
Plymouth Hardware Co.,
9 42
J. E. Vaughn,
15 75
American Book Co.,
11 08
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Ginn & Co., 12 25
Little, Brown & Co.,
2 55
Albert Humphrey, 23 00
Charles Scribner Sons,
10 40
L. E. Knott & Co.,
12 14
D. C. Heath & Co.,
18 88
Prang Educational Co.,
1 11
Milton, Bradley & Co.,
8 20
University Publishing Co.,
7 17
$484 77
MASSACHUSETTS STATE SCHOOL FUND.
Received from State,
$845 62
Surplus,
617 17
$1,462 79
Paid-
J. F. Shaw, transportation, $70 00
F. F. Tillson, transportation, 126 00
J. S. McKay, transportation, 56 00
Mrs. G. C. White, transportation,
51 20
Roswell Shurtleff, transportation,
100 00
Charles Carleson, transportation,
42 00
H. H. Gammons, transportation,
18 00
Surplus, 999 59
$1,462 79
SUPERINTENDENT'S ACCOUNT.
Received from State,
$300 00
General appropriation, 300 00
$600 00
Paid C. W. Humphrey,
600 00
Carver 5
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MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Town appropriation,
20 00 Balance,
20 00
Average Membership
Average Attendance
Per cent. Attendance
High School,
15.4
13.6
88.3
North Grammar,
16.
13.
89.
North Primary,
26.4
21.
79.8
South Grammar,
22.9
19.6
85.5
South Primary,
24.6
21.6
87.
Centre Grammar.
16.6
15.1
91.3
Centre Primary,
16.
14.2
89.2
Wenham,
19.
15.5
83.6
Pope's Point,
20.9
17.3
81.
Bates Pond,
13.
11.
82.
ROLL OF HONOR.
The following are the names of those pupils who had perfect attendance for one or more terms.
Three terms, Ezimael Dube.
Two terms, Ernest Gardner, Roy Atwood. Julia M. Stanley, Rodney Griffith.
One term, Edward Salley, Arnold Salley, Gertrude Salley, Harold Dunn, Everett Cassidy, Anna Holmes, Acsah Holmes, James Bates, Lucile Shaw, Henty Noponen, Maynard Peterson, Stella White, Myrtle Gardner, Alton Kenney, John Shaw, Angie Washburn, Bernard Winberg, William Winberg, Florence At- wood, Ida Atwood.
The following pupils were not absent for one or more terms, but were tardy.
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Three terms, George F. Washburn.
Two terms, Helen Mahler, Mildred Story.
One term, Cora Shaw, Howard Gardner, Eva Perkins, Kath- arine Perkins.
REPAIRS.
A new woodshed and outbuildings were built at Pope's Point, and the ceiling of the school building sheathed over.
TRANSPORTATION.
Three pupils are brought from North Carver and Wenham to the High School and two from South Carver to the High School at the present time. During the three terms seven pupils are brought from the Federal Furnace to South Carver and three from Snappit to North Carver.
CHANGES IN TEACHING.
There were several resignations at the close of the summer term, namely : Mr. Burnham, Miss Hadley, Mr. Griffith, Miss Tillson and Miss Bump. Miss Bower was transferred from Bates Pond to the Centre Primary. Miss Padelford resigned during the second month of the fall term.
MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS.
The school committee recommend an appropriation of one hundred dollars for medical inspection in the schools.
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It has been suggested to the committee that a new primary building be erected at the Centre. The present building is in a bad condition, and is in an unhealthy location as water stands under the building most of the time.
APPROPRIATION.
We recommend a general appropriation of $4,650 00 for the support of schools for the present year.
Respectfully yours, C. C. PERKINS, W. M. SHAW, MRS. A. G. SHAW,
School Committee of Carver.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
School Committee and Citizens of Carver --
A school report is usually addressed to the school committee of a town, and written in such a manner as to infer that they are not conversant with the conditions in the schools, while it is really addressed in spirit to the citizens, who have less oppor- tunity to know what the existing conditions are.
The object of a school report is to keep the people in touch with schools and school work; to let them know what is done in the schools ; to tell them wherein we seem to be succeeding, and how we are trying to improve the work; to point out what changes we think should be made that can be made only by the people themselves, and suggest the way in which they can be brought about ; to bring before them new plans, and reasons for their adoption ; and to present the more important educa- tional movements that are engaging the attention of educators.
The number of pupils in all the schools at present is 200, a few more than last year. The present teachers number eleven ; of these nine are graduates of normal schools. We were un- fortunate in the number of changes necessary at the close of the last school year in June. Following is the teacher and num- ber of pupils at each school at the beginning of the present term :
Mrs. Elizabeth Belden, Middleboro; Bridgewater Normal School, 4 years; North Grammar School, 18 pupils. Mrs. Belden has substituted in this school since the resignation of Miss Padelford in the early part of the year, and is to be suc- ceeded by Mrs. Sarah E. Clark of Cambridge, January 27.
Miss Nellie L. Barker, Bridgewater; Bridgewater Normal School, 3 years ; at the North Primary, 27 pupils.
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Mr. Ellis G. Cornish. Carver; Center Grammar School, 17 pupils.
Miss Sadie A. Bowen, Brockton; Bridgewater Normal School, 2 years; Center Primary School, 17 pupils.
Miss Ethel H. Nash, Worcester; Hyannis Normal School, 2 years ; South Grammar School, 29 pupils.
Miss Marian C. Copeland, Fall River ; Bridgewater Normal School, ? years ; South Primary School, 30 pupils.
Miss Lula A. Pease, Weymouth ; Bridgewater Normal School, 2 years ; Wenham School, 20 pupils.
Mrs. Blanche E. Holmes, Carver ; Pope's Point School, 15 pu- pils.
Miss Mary McConnel, Quincy ; Hyannis Normal School, 2 years ; Bates Pond School, 14 pupils.
Mr. George L. Spaulding, Manchester, N. H .; Bridgewater Normal School, 4 years ; principal of High School, 13 pupils.
Miss Louise H. Newton, South Easton ; Bridgewater Normal School. 4 years : assistant at High School.
The course of study is nearly uniform in all the towns of the district. It has been given in previous reports, and has not materially changed.
There has been a gradual improvement in the work in all schools. It is usually the most marked where a teacher stays in one school for two years or more. If she is a beginner she does not understand her work and become familiar with the text books and course of study before the second year. We are getting more intelligent reading than a few years ago, but the oral reading is not as good as it might or should be. There is need of more drill for good expression. There has been im- provement in both oral and written English in some schools. We get better work in arithmetic than formerly. This work needs revising more than in any other study. I see no way of doing it, however, until some one shall write a text book on a different plan from any now used, which shall elimiate much that is now done, confining the teaching to those things which
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are used after one leaves school, in general, not a special work. It is often difficult to persuade parents that it is not arithme- tic that is needed for success in business so much as common sense, good judgment and hard work. In most schools there is improvement in geography and history. The kind of reading matter used in the lower grades has helped somewhat in the history study. This can be further improved by more atten- tion to story telling by the younger children. Leaving gram- mar until the seventh grade is securing rather better work in that subject. A permanent improvement in discipline is hard- ly possible, since in any school it may change with any change of teachers. It is good in nearly all the schools this year.
There are some things that are essential to the teachers' suc- cess, and by careful attention to them I think they can im- prove their work. They should be able to give a clear reason for teaching each subject as a whole. for each topic in the sub- ject, and for the order in which they teach them ; and see what use the children will make of the knowledge gained, after they leave school. I think I have said before, Ask yourself these questions of every lesson you teach : What do I aim to teach by this particular lesson ? Have the pupils the requisite prep- aration, by previous lessons, to understand it ? Have I apt and
sufficient illustrations to make the matter clear? Have I all the essential points to be made, and in the right order? Have I made the teaching sufficiently simple for a child to understand it? Another thing upon which your success depends. Teach nothing for the sake of making a show, for yourself or your school. Do not mind what some other school or grade is doing, you are concerned only with your own school. Spend no time in debating what your children ought to know; take them as you find them, and teach them what they need.
These are some of the things that the teachers can do to improve their work under the present course of study. One subject which should be added to the course is drawing under the direction of a special teacher. Any mechanic or employer
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of mechanical labor knows the value of it. Most well informed men know something of the industrial and commercial supre- macy of the German nation. It is due in a large measure to their schools. After the study of the German language, no sub- ject receives more attention than drawing. A former United States Consul in a report on German schools says, "The im- portance of this study may be seen in the many hours devoted to it from the kindergarten to the university. No other study in the technical schools receives so many hours or more careful attention. In day schools, evening schools and Sunday schools (many of the German industrial schools have Sunday sessions) it is the same thing-drawing ! drawing ! drawing ! It is an aid rather than a hindrance to the memory. It trains the mind as well as the eye. It is as great an aid to the reasoning powers as is logic or mathematics. It is the very essence of both." We are required by statute to teach it in all schools, and something is done, but the study is usually of little value unless there is a special teacher or supervisor for it. It is a study requiring such special training that the ordinary teacher is seldom suc- cessful with it.
The matters at present receiving the greatest attention of ed- ucators are the physical condition of children, and industrial ed- ucation. The statutes of 1906 require the school committee or board of health to appoint school physicians, who shall examine all school children, and to whom can be referred any believed to be suffering from contagious diseases ..
The second of these matters, industrial education, took definite shape in 1905, when Gov. Douglass appointed a commission to investigate the subject of such education. Later a permanent commission was appointed to establish industrial schools in co- operation with cities and towns. The object of the schools is to give industrial training to boys and girls over fourteen years of age, who do not wish to attend the general high school, but who would go to a school in which they could learn the ele- ments of a vacation, and pursue those studies directly relating to
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their work. It also seeks to establish agricultural schools as one class of vocational schools. In most cases, depending on the city's or town's appropriation for schools per $1,000 of valuation, one half the expense of industrial schools is to be borne by the State. The present industrial schools of certain kinds are not supported by or under state control. One recently established is the Ludlow Textile School, at Ludlow, Mass. This school was recently opened by the Ludlow Manufacturing Associates for the purpose of training boys in the manufacture of hemp and
jute fabrics. The course is four years. The boys work five hours a day in the mills of the company, and spend three hours a day in the school, on studies relating to the work. The Lynn Electrical School is another industrial school of this kind. They were both established to train young men for a special kind of work, and they require the students to work in the shops or mills part time, and study part time. In this respect they agree with the German industrial schools, which usually re- quire as one of the conditions of admission that the boy or girl shall be an apprentice, or engaged in the kind of work taught in the school. One of the reasons for establishing industrial schools is that under existing conditions it is difficult for a boy to learn a trade or vocation, and that the best paying positions are filled by foreigners. In this connection it is interesting to note that one-half the pupils in the Ludlow school are foreign born, and all are of foreign parentage, 5t per cent of the parents coming from Scotland. But the fact that while the number of boys in this school is limited to 22, that they receive full pay for the time in the mills and half pay while in school, and that even under these favorable conditions the company found it difficult to secure this small number, shows that a willingness to work hard for four years at small pay to learn a vocation is as neces- sary as the opportunity to do so.
There is also a growing demand for industrial teaching in the general schools, specially in the high schools, and many at- tempts are made to supply it. Much can undoubtedly be done;
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but to actually teach a vocation in the general school will. I be- lieve, be the most difficult task the schools have yet attempted. I believe the industrial schools and the general schools are dis- tinct in their aim. . The object of the general school is general education, as a foundation for industrial, which is special educa- tion. Considering only those pupils who do not intend to go to a general or technical college, those who can afford it and have an inclination to do so should complete a grammar and English high school course before beginning industrial education. Those who can afford only a grammar school general education should enter the industrial school on completion of the grammar school course. I believe the best possible general education should be got as a foundation for a broad industrial training. Those who would study in a business school should first complete an English high school course if possible. Even for those who would con- tinue their education through a technical college, the general high school course is a better preparation than an industrial school course. As unlikely as it may seem, very much the larger per cent. of students in the German commercial and technical uni- versities are graduates from classical secondary schools, rather than from their excellent secondary industrial schools. While the industrial schools that pupils would enter at the completion of a grammar school course are to teach the elements of a voca- tion. it will be a mistake if they are made strictly vocational. at the expense of intellectual training. Those trained in such schools would be expected to be in many cases foremen or over- seers or employers of labor. We would do well to hold to the German idea that a man who is to direct the work of others should command their respect by his intellectual superiority as well as by his knowledge of his work.
If the State wishes to foster industrial education. I believe there is no one way in which it can do more in the general schools than by teaching industrial drawing from the beginning of the grammar school through the high school, as a regular, not a special study. The teaching should be done by a trained en- gineer, who has a broad comprehension of the work.
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A bill has been prepared, to be acted upon by the present Legislature, to give state aid for industrial teaching in the gen- eral high schools.
I thank the committee and citizens for their encouraging sup- port, and the teachers and pupils for their faithful work through the year.
Respectfully yours, CHESTER W. HUMPHREY,
Superintendent.
Carver, Mass., January 1, 1908.
SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1904-1908.
Fall Term, Sept. 30, 1907 to Dec. 20, 1902, 12 weeks. Winter vacation, Dec. 20, 1907 to Dec. 30, 1907, 9 days. Winter Term, Dec. 30, 1907 to Mar. 20, 1908; 12 weeks. Spring Vacation, Mar. 20, 1908, to Mar. 30, 1908, 9 days. Spring Term. Mar. 30, 1908 to June 19, 1908, 12 weeks. Summer Vacation, June 19, 1908 to Sept. 28, 1908, Fall Term, Sept. 28, 1908 to Dec. 18, 1908, 12 weeks. Winter Vacation, Dec. 18, 1908 to Dec. 28, 1908, 9 days. Winter Term, Dec. 28, 1908 to Mar. 19, 1909, 12 weeks. Spring Vacation, Mar. 19, 1909 to Mar. 29. 1909, 9 days. Spring Term, Mar. 29, 1909 to June 18. 909. 12 weeks.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CARVER PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Citizens of Carver :
In the report of the librarian you will find a list of the books added during the year.
In the selectmen's report you will find an account of the finances, and will see that we have quite a balance, but that does not show the bills dne. which amount to about $50.
Last year we had a small balance of fines, $3.46. It is now our rule to use this account to pay current expenses of the li- brary.
In presenting our annual report we ask no departure from the policy of the past, but we will venture to throw out a sug- gestion which may result in a better understanding after it is throughly discussed. We believe a conservative course towards this department on the part of the town is best calculated to continue that co-operation on the part of the friends of the li- brary we have thus far enjoyed.
The question of room is one we must face in the near future. The present room is cramped, making a systematic arrange- ment of books a difficult undertaking, and here comes in our suggestion.
We have in town a Soldiers' Memorial Association whose pur- pose is to erect a Soldiers' Memorial. It would appear to us that the erection of a monument which would be a lasting and creditable memorial is beyond our reach.
Such a monument would cost at least five thousand dollars, and when completed would be a conventional memorial.
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On the other hand if this Association would adopt the plan of erecting a Soldiers' Memorial Library building it would be taking a long and practical step towards the achievement of its purpose. In such a plan the town would doubtless cooperate, and a memorial, creditable alike to the generation which erected it, and to the soldiers of a past generation whose sacrifices it commemorates, would stand as an inspiration to future genera- tions.
Let a room be dedicated to the memory of the soldiers; let the walls be draped with flags and hung with portraits ; let tab- lets tell the record of the Carver Soldiers ; let every fitting me- mento of that dark page in our country's history find a place in this room : for in no fitter way can the patriotism of the boys of '61 be held constantly before the people of future ages.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY S. GRIFFITH,
EUGENE E. SHAW,
SETH C. C. FINNEY,
Trustees Carver Public Library.
LIST OF BOOKS.
Castlemon, Harry.
Frank among the Rancheros,
2637.
The Houseboat Boys,
2638.
George in Camp,
2639.
The Buried Treasure,
2640.
The Mail Carrier,
2641.
The Mystery of Lost River Canyon,
2642.
The Young Game Warden,
2643.
Marcy, The Refugee,
2644.
Frank in the Mountains,
2645.
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The Ten-Ton Cutter.
2646.
Rodney, the Overseer,
2647.
Sportsman's Club Among the Trappers,
Go Ahead,
2648. 2649. 2650.
George at the Fort.
Don Gordon's Shooting Box.
2651.
Tom Newcomb.
2652.
True to his Colors.
2653.
Marcy, the Blockade-Runner,
2654.
Rebellion in Dixie,
2655.
George at the Wheel.
2656.
Carl, the Trailer.
2657.
No Moss.
2658.
Davis, W. T.
Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian,
2659.
Kellogg, Elijah,
The Sophomores of Radcliffe,
2660.
The Unseen Hand,
2661.
The Ark of Elm Island,
2662.
Stout Heart.
2663.
Turning of the Tide,
2664.
Sowed by the Wind.
2665.
Otis, James. Wrecked on Spider Island,
2666.
Aesop.
Fables,
2667.
Auerbach. Berthold.
Black Forest,
2668.
Bacheller, Irving.
Darrell of the Blessed Isles,
2669.
Bain, R. Nisbit.
Turkish Fairy Tales,
Barr, Amelia.
A Rose of a Hundred Leaves,
26:1.
Barr, Robert.
The Speculations of John Steele,
2670.
2672.
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Bartlett, John.
Familiar Quotations. 2673.
Beebe, C. W. The Bird, 2674.
Bell, Lillian. Carolina Lee, 2675.
Bonney, Catharine, V. P.
Legacy of Historic Gleanings, Vol. I,
a2676.
Legacy of Historic Gleanings, Vol. II, b2676.
Bronte, C. Villette, 2677.
Brooks, E. S.
Elbridge Gerry Brooks, 2678.
Brown, Alice.
High Noon, 2679.
. The Country Road,
2680.
Brown, John.
Spare Hours, Vol. I,
a2681.
Spare Hours, Vol. II,
b2681.
Bulfinch, Thomas, Age of Fable, 2682.
Burnett, Frances H.
The Dawn of a Tomorrow, 2683.
Burnham, Clara Louise.
The Open Shutters,
2684.
Burroughs, John.
Bird and Bough,
2685.
Ways of Nature,
2686.
Call, Annie P.
Every Day Living,
2687.
Carey, Rosa N.
The Angel of Forgiveness,
2688.
Castlemon, Harry.
Rodney, the Partisan,
2689.
Cholmondeley, Mary. Prisoners,
2690.
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Cooper, J. F.
The Spy, (Dup.) 56.
Churchill, Winston. Coniston, 2691.
Deland, Margaret.
The Awakening of Helena Richie,
2692.
DeStael, Madame. Corinne, 2693.
Dickens, Charles.
Pictures from Italy, etc.,
2694.
David Copperfield, Vol. I, (Dup.)
a350.
David Copperfield, Vol. II, (Dup.)
b350.
Nicholas Nickleby, Vol. I, (Dup.)
a82.
Nicholas Nickleby, Vol. II, (Dup.)
b82.
Douglas, Amanda M.
Helen Grant's Friends,
2695.
Helen Grant's Schooldays,
2696.
Edgeworth, Maria.
Rosamond and other tales,
2698.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
Poems, 2699.
Ewing, Mrs. J. H.
Story of a Short Life,
2700.
Forbush, Edward H.
Useful Birds and their Protection,
2701.
Gaskell, E. C.
Life of Charlotte Bronte,
2702.
Goodrich, S. G.
History of the United States,
2703.
Gould, S. Baring.
Old English Fairy Tales,
2704.
Gorham, Mrs. J. C.
Alice in Wonderland, 2705.
Greely, Horace.
Recollections of a Busy Life,
2706.
-81-
Greene, Sarah P. M.
Power Lot, 2707.
Grimm.
Fairy Tales,
2708.
Gulliver. 'I'ravels,
2709.
Harraden, Beatrice.
The Scholar's Daughter,
2710.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
Blithedale Romance, (Dup.)
120.
Hemans, Felicia.
National Lyrics,
2711.
Poetical Works, (Dup.)
940.
Ingersoll, Ernest.
The Wit of the Wild,
2712.
Jamesson, Mrs.
Sketches of Art,
2713.
Legends of the Madona,
2714.
Characteristics of Women,
2715.
Loves of the Poets,
2716.
The Diary of an Ennuyee,
2717.
Keats, John.
Poems,
2718.
Kellog, Elijah.
Wolf Rur
2719.
Lamb, Charles.
Essay of Elia,
2720.
Lang, Andrew.
The Blue Fairy Book,
2721.
The Green Fairy Book,
2722.
Le Vert, Madame.
Souvenirs of Travel, Vol. I,
a2723.
Souvenirs of Travel, Vol. II,
b2723.
Lincoln, Joseph C.
Cap'n Eri, 2724.
Carver 6.
-82-
Partners of the Tide.
2725.
Little, Francis.
The Lady of the Decoration,
2726.
London, Jack.
Before Adam,
2727.
Daughter of the Snows,
2728.
MacGrath, Harold.
The Man on the Box,
2729.
Matthews, William.
Getting on in the World,
2730.
Meade, L. T.
The Lady of the Forest,
2731.
The Children's Kingdom,
2732.
Their Little Mother,
2733.
Melville, Herman. Battle Pieces,
2734.
Munn, C. C.
The Girl from Tim's Place,
2735.
Rockhaven,
2736.
Paulding, I. K.
Bulls and Johnathans,
2737.
The Dutchman's Fireside,
2738.
Robertson, T. W., and Higson, E. P. Artemas Ward's Parnorama,
2739.
Schiller.
Complete Works, Vol. I. a2740.
Complete Works, Vol. II,
b2740.
Scott, Walter.
Waverly, Vol. I. (Dup.)
a198.
Waverly, Vol. II, (Dup.)
b198.
Guy Mannering, Vol. I, (Dup.)
a202.
Guy Mannering, Vol. II, (Dup.)
b202.
Stoddard, Richard Henry.
Lamb, Hazlitt, and others,
2741.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
Palmetto Leaves,
2742.
-83-
Swinton, William.
Outlines of the World's History,
2:43.
Tarkington, Booth.
The Two Van Revels,
2744.
Taylor, Bayard.
At Home and Abroad,
2745.
Greece and Russia,
2746.
Tennyson, Alfred.
Poems, (Dup.)
280.
Thoreau, Henry D.
Excursions,
2747.
Thurston, Katherine Cecil.
The Masquerader,
2748.
Todd, Charles Burr.
The Story of New York City,
2749.
Tomlinson, E. T.
Four Boys in the Yellowstone,
2750.
Warde, Margaret.
Betty Wales, Freshman, 2751.
Betty Wales, Junior,
2752.
Betty Wales, Senior,
2753.
Webster, Daniel.
Great Orations, 2754.
Wheeler, Wm. A.
Dict. of Noted Names of Fiction,
2755.
Whicher, F. M.
Widow Bedott' Papers,
2756.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas.
Rose O' the River,
2757.
Winthrop, Theodore.
John Brent, (Dup.)
225.
Winthrop, Thos.
Cecil Dreeme,
2758.
Wister Owen.
Lady Baltimore,
2759.
-84-
Miscellaneous.
Conversations with Lord Byron,
2760.
Home Ballads,
2761.
Rutledge,
718.
Thackery and Dickens.
262.
Burlesque.
2763.
Hansel and Grethel,
2764.
Castle Craneycrow,
265.
The Prospector,
2766.
Books of Reference.
Useful Birds and their Protection. 209.
Records of the Town of Plymouth, 210.
Major General William Francis Bartlett,
211.
Hist. of Forty-Eighth Regiment,
212.
Vital Records of Lynn, Mass., Vol. II.
213.
Vital Records of Templeton, Mass.,
214.
Vital Records of Hubbardston,
215.
Vital Records of Sutton,
216.
Vital Records of Medford,
217.
Vital Records of Williamstown,
218.
Vital Records of West Stockbridge,
219.
Vital Records of Dracut,
220.
Vital Records of Bradford, Mass ..
221.
Vital Records of Gardner, Mass ..
222.
The Twenty-Fourth Mass ..
223.
Hist. of 50th Mass., Vols.,
224.
Hist. Nineteenth Regiment.
225.
Hist. Twentieth Regiment,
226.
Mass .. Special Laws,
227.
Trial of Charles L. Tucker, 228.
Opinions of Attorney Generals of Mass.,
229.
Preceedings of the G. A. R., Encampment, 1907,
230.
Donations.
Mr. George W. VanSchaack, New York City, 59 Books.
-85-
Mr. Seth C. C. Finney, 1 Book.
Mrs. Louise Savery, copies of the Outlook,
Publishers Middleboro Gazette, Carver Transcript, Our Dumb Animals, and Woman's Journal, one paper each issue.
Statistics.
Number of Patrons, 225.
Number of books taken from Library during year, 2,401.
Number of books added during the year, 141.
Total number of books in Library, (Dup. not included), 2,763.
Number of books for reference, 230.
Financial Statement.
On hand, January 1, 1907.
$3 46
Received for fines and cards during 1907,
5 43
Total. 8 89
Paid out for running expenses, 1907, 1 22'
Balance on hand, January 1, 1908 7 67
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