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THE SAWMILL MAN'S ARITHMETIC.
The sawmill man uses arithmetic to measure: Wood by the cord. logs with calipers. lumber by board measures. and he computes time and wages.
A wood measurer uses a measuring stick to measure wood. If one has no measuring stick, get the dimension of the pile of wood in feet and inches. change the inches to the decimal of a font, find the volume. divide the number of cubic feet by 128 to get cords and decimal of a cord.
Suppose a load of wood to be 3 feet 9 inches wide. 3 feet 5 inches high. and 8 feet long. and the value- $4.75 per cord. 3 feet, 9 inches. equals 3 9-12 feet. equals 3.15 feet. the width. 3 feet. 5 inches, equals 3 5-12 feet, equals 3.4 feet, the height. S feet. cquals 8 feet. the length.
3.75x3.4x8 equals 102 cubic feet, equals 102-128 cord, equals .79 cord.
$4.75x.79, equals $3.75, the value of the wood.
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To find the amount of lumber in a load of logs, measure each log with calipers. There are various kinds. One kind will show on the scale the number of cubic feet and cubic inches in each log. Suppose the length of the logs to be 4 1-2 feet the numbers will read something like this: 6 feet 1 inch, 11 feet 10 inches, 3 feet 4 inches, 7 feet 0 inches, etc. Suppose the sum of the measurements to be 235 feet 10 inches. Change to feet and decimal of a foot ; divide by 128 to get to cords and decimal of cord. Suppose the price to be $7.50 per cord 235 feet, 10 inches, equals 235.8 cubic feet.
235.8 cubic feet, x 128, equals 1.84 cords.
$7.50x1.84, equals $13.80, the value of the logs.
Another kind of calipers supposes all logs to be 100 inches long. To measure with this kind, get the amount of cubic feet and cubic inches, divide by 100, and multiply by the actual length of the logs being measured.
To find the amount of lumber in boards, planks, joist and timber.
If boards are of same width, but varying lengths, get the sum of the lengths, and multiply by the common width. Sup- pose the lengths to be 16 feet, 16 feet, 14 feet, 12 feet, 15 feet, 17 feet, 17 feet, 18 feet, 12 feet, 12 feet equals 149 feet in length, Common width, 8 inches. 8 inches equals 2-3 foot x 149, equals 99 square feet.
Common width 6 inches. 6 inches equals 1-2 foot x 149, equals 75 square feet.
Common width 6 inches. 6 inches equals 1-2 feet x 149, equals 75 square feet.
A common way is to simply multiply length by width, and divide by 12.
If boards are of same length but varying widths, get the sum of the widths, and multiply by the common length.
If of varying lengths and widths, measure each one separate- ly.
If the sides are not parallel, take the width at the middle.
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In measuring plank, 2-inch planks are twice the surface meas- ure, etc.
Boards under 1 inch thick are reckoned at surface measure, and sold as so many feet of such a thickness.
Joist is small timber. 2 x 3 joist is 2 inches thick and 3 inches wide. In measuring, consider it a board 1 inch thick and 6 inches wide. Reckon others accordingly.
2x4 equals a board £ 8 inches wide.
2x6 equals a board 1 foot wide.
3x4 equals a board 1 foot wide.
4x4 equals a board 16 inches wide.
4x6 equals a board 2 feet wide.
6x8 equals a board 4 feet wide.
Another sheet was Bankers' Arithmetic, got from bank men; and they told me it includes all their arithmetic.
BANKERS' ARITHMETIC.
Bankers' arithmetic is adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, and finding interest.
National banks find interest for any term up to six months.
Savings banks find interest usually for six and twelve months only.
Find interest thus: Point off two places in the amount for interest for two months, and multiply by half the number of months, including months in the years also ; point off three places in the amount for interest for six days, and get the full number of days as shown below. If the rate is other than 6 per cent., find for 6 per cent. first, and other rates from that.
Teach the habit of always arranging the work on the paper thus :
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Find the interest on $5,867 at 6 per cent. for 1 year, 5 months, 14 days.
$58.67 equals interest for 2 mos. 81/2 equals 1/2 the number of months.
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$498.70 equals interest for 17 mos.
13.70 equals interest for 14 das.
$512.40 equals interest for 1 year, 5 mos., 14 das.
$5.87 equals interest for 6 das.
5.87 equals interest for 6 das.
1.95 equals interest for 2 das.
$13.70 equals interest for 14 das.
Find time thus: The method of finding time differs in dif- ferent localities. Some find for months and days if the time is over three months, and exact number of days for less than three months; others find exact number of days for any time. Use the first method.
Find the time on a note from September 17, 1907 to July 5, 1909.
add 30 das. 1909-7- 5 1907-9-17
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If necessary to add days to subtract, as above, add the number of days in the month before the one in which the note falls due.
Discount-Discount is interest paid at the time that money is hired, instead of when a note becomes due. If one hires $100.00 of a national bank, and gives his note for six months, he gets · but $97.00; the interest is taken out at the time.
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Teach to write notes; get blanks from a national bank.
Teach to write checks, and keep a check book; get blanks from a bank.
This work is not to be done before the eighth or ninth grade.
The result of all this work was, I decided that to teach the arithmetic of workers we would try to do the following things, throughout the elementary, grammar and primary school course.
ARITHMETIC TO BE TAUGHT THROUGHOUT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COURSE.
1. Teach the four operations of addition, subtraction, multi- plication and division, of whole and fractional numbers, com- mon and decimal.
2. Teach to make any reasonable measurement, readily and accurately, and to compute material and cost.
3. Teach to make a rough sketch of simple things mechanics make, and draw them to scale.
4. Teach to use a drawing kit handily; to use the T square, triangle, compasses, ruler and protractor.
5. Teach to make ordinary sales and purchases, the necessary computation, write a bill, make change, give a receipt, make simple use of per cent., find interest, write a check and keep a check book, and write a note.
6. Teach the operations on numbers necessary to do these things. These are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers; operations on common and decimal fractions ; operations on denominate numbers ; measurement of length, surface, angle, volume, capacity, weight, time and money ; factors and product ; ratio and proportion ; per cent. and interest ; and powers and roots.
These are the things I would teach throughout the elementary school course, so far as I have thought them out.
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It will be seen that to teach arithmetic in this manner a text book can not be followed .. It then remained to prepare directions for the teachers' use, and to provide work for the pupils. It seemed to me that the reason young people can not make better use of arithmetic after leaving school is that nearly all problems in text books, especially of the mechanical sort, give measurements and dimensions, and require little of the pupils but to manipulate figures to get an answer. The difficult thing for them, and in which they have very little practice, is to make the measurements and get dimensions themselves, and solve problems from them. I saw this in one of the grammar schools, where a class was working on problems in finding the cost of plastering rooms; and all got the results readily and accurately. But when I asked them to find the cost of plaster- ing the room in which they were, they were unable to do any- thing with it. They said that if it had been a problem in the book they could do it, but they could do nothing with that. Em- ployers tell me that young people who come to them always have the same difficulty, unless it is one who has handled tools. To overcome this difficulty I am preparing problems in which the pupils must do all the work themselves. One set of problems is this :
PROBLEMS REQUIRING THE USE OF DENOMINATE NUMBERS.
Finding the cost of flooring your school room, and other rooms of the building. Prices of material and labor vary. At present $45.00 per M ft. is a fair price for hard pine flooring. Allow 1-3 waste for matching and cutting up, that is, allow 130 square feet of lumber to lay 100 square feet of floor. Allow 3 pounds of nails for 100 square feet of floor. $3.25 per keg of 100 pounds is a fair price. Floors are laid by the square, 100 square feet, a fair price for which is $1.50 for labor.
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Find the cost of wainscotting, using the same estimates as for flooring, which will be approximately correct.
Find the cost of plastering the rooms. Plastering is done by the square yard. 40 cents per square yard is a fair price for lathes, nails, mortar and labor. The mason is paid for 1-2 the openings for doors and windows, as if he plastered that extra amount.
Find the cost of shingling your school house, both roof and sides, if the walls are shingled. Shingles are put up in bundles, four to the M. 800 good shingles will cover 100 square feet. It needs about 6 pounds of nails to lay a M. $4.50 is a fair price for good shingle per M, and $3.25 for nails per keg. $1.75 per M is a fair price for laying. Find how much of the shingle is laid to the weather on your school house, that is, how much of the shingles shows.
If the walls are clapboarded instead of shingled, estimate the cost of clapboarding. Clapboards are worth about $40.00 per M; 100 will cover about 120 square feet; it requires about 3 pounds of nails per C; and $1.00 per C is a fair price for laying.
Another kind of problem is this :
FIND THE COST OF A PACKING CASE.
Find the cost of 1000 cases to hold 1 gross each of the crayon boxes that are in your school room.
Have a packing case of some kind in the school room. If this is not possible, then have a smaller box. Study the ar- rangement of the parts; see how the sides lap on the ends for nailing, etc.
Use 7-8-inch white pine boards, planed one side. Get the price unplaned from a mill man or dealer in your town. At present such lumber is worth about $18.00 per M ft.
The ends of the case must be made in one piece, that
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the top, bottom and sides may be nailed to them. For this two or more boards must be cleated together; find the best ar- rangement for cleats. Use same material for cleats as for other parts.
Make drawings, to a convenient size for your drawing boards, and give dimensions, to show the size and arrangement of all parts, so that if they were sent to a box factory the fore- man would know how to make the box.
The pupils must get all dimensions, each for himself, from a crayon box ; must decide how to arrange a gross of boxes in the form of a prism, approximating a cube; and must determine all the dimensions of his case. Allow 15 per cent. waste in cut- . ting up lumber.
Allow $3.05 per M ft. for handling the lumber, planing, cut- ting up, and putting the cases together.
Have the pupils decide how to find the cost of nails needed. Count the nails in a case as near as possible to the one they are to make, find the size of nail and the number in a pound, the number of pounds in a keg, and the cost per keg.
Work out the problem thus:
1. Decide on the arrangement of the small boxes.
2. Make all necessary measurements.
3. Make the drawings, with dimensions.
4. Find the amount of lumber in each part of one case.
5. Find the total amount and cost of lumber for 1,000 cases, allowing the waste in cutting up.
6. Find the cost of nails.
7. Find the cost of labor.
8. Find the total cost of 1,000 cases. .
9. Make a model of the box from oak tag.
This shows the kind of problems we are using in mechanical arithmetic. I do not think the difficulties are so great on the commercial side. Yet in that the same trouble arises, and from the same cause. It seems as if solving problems in buying and selling would teach children to do the thing itself, but it does
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not do it at all. Until they have measured and weighed, handled money and made change, they know nothing about it. It is unreasonable to expect children in the elementary schools to make rapid and accurate computation. Anyone who has studied the matter knows that it is the result of long and con- tinual practice, and that the power is lost almost as soon as the practice is discontinued. The only place and time for this is in a commercial course, and in the latter part of that.
My plan in regard to the course of study is to take one sub- ject at a time and work on it until it seems satisfactory, and let the others remain until their turn comes. I selected the sub- ject of arithmetic because it seems to me we are losing more time in that than in any other. I have given something of the details of the work, that you might know what we are trying to do. Just what will be the results of following this plan it is too early to say, but thus far they are more satisfactory than those obtained by the usual method of study. It makes more work for the teachers than teaching directly from a text book; but they are taking it up very successfully, and I thing willing- ly, as they invariably do all that I ask of them.
Respectfully yours, CHESTER W. HUMPHREY,
Carver, Mass., January 15, 1910. Superintendent.
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SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1910-1911.
Fall term-Sept. 27, 1909, to Dec. 17, 1909, 12 weeks. Winter vacation-Dec. 17, 1909, to Dec. 27, 1909, 9 days. Winter term-Dec. 27, 1909, to March 18, 1910, 12 weeks. Spring vacation-March 18, 1910, to March 28, 1910, 9 days. Spring term-March 28, 1910, to June 17, 1910, 12 weeks. Fall term-Oct. 3, 1910, to Dec. 23, 1910, 12 weeks. Winter vacation-Dec. 23, 1910, to Jan. 2, 1911, 9 days. Winter term-Jan. 2, 1911, to Mar. 24, 1911, 12 weeks. Spring vacation-March 24, 1911, to April 3, 1911, 9 days. Spring term-April 3, 1911, to June 23, 1911, 12 weeks. Summer vacation-June 23, 1911.
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E. T. PRATT SCHOOL FUND
The following is a summary of the second account to probate court of Gustavus Atwood, trustee of the E. T. Pratt school fund, of date, Dec. 31, 1909.
SCHEDULE A. (Receipts). 1
Dec. 31, 1898, amount of principal as invested at date, $3,240 75 Jan. 3, 1900, received of Theron Cole for logs, 13 50
Nov. 2, 1900, received of N. Y., N. H. & Hartford R. R. Fire Darby lot, 20 00
April 21, 1901, received of Clark & Cole, logs of Darby lot, 199 72
July 17, 1901, received of Clark & Cole logs of Darby lot, 42 43
July 29, 1901, received of Clark & Cole, wood of Darby lot, 36 75
Sept. 26, 1903, received of Job Churchill, sale
Ned Brook lot, 300 00
Nov. 3, 1908, received S. C. C. Finney, hoop-poles, 2 00
Amount of sales, $3,855 15
Dec. 31, 1909, accrued dividends at Plymouth Savings Bank, $1,114 04
Dec. 31, 1909, accrued dividends at Plymouth Five Cent Savings Bank, 366 78
Dec. 31, 1909, accrued dividends at Wareham Savings Bank, 48 54
Dec. 31, 1909, accrued dividends of one share rail- road stock, Old Colony Company, 11 years, 77 00
Amount of dividends, $1,606 36
Total amount of sales and dividends, $5,461 51
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SCHEDULE B. (Payments).
Oct. 13, 1900, by cash to treasurer of Town of Carver, real estate taxes for two years, $3 75
Jan. 3, 1901, by cash to treasurer of town of Plym- outh, for taxes, 3 49
July 15, 1899, by cash to Finney Brothers, chop- ping logs, 5 40
Sept. 24, 1900, by cash for survey of three lines, Darby pond lot, 4 00
Oct. 25, 1900, by cash to Finney, surveying one line, Darby Pond lot, 1 50
April 29 and 30th, 1903, by cash for survey and drafting Ned Brook lot, 9 00
Nov. 24, 1904, by cash to Geo. W. Stetson, advice and assistance, 1 50
Jan. 5, 1907, by cash to readjustment of lines of Darby Pond lot after fire, 3 00
Jan. 1, 1904, by cash to S. C. C. Finney, assist- ance in appraisal Ned Brook lot, 1 50
Dec. 31, 1909, by cash on necessary expenses of trustee faciltating sales and adjusting claims, travel, accounting, etc., from Dec. 31, 1898 to date, amounting to $32.46, on which amount $10.71 remains unpaid to be adjusted from 1910 dividends shown, that schedules B and C may show an even balance with Schedule A. Amount paid, 21 75
Dec. 31, 1909, total amount of payments into treasury of town since Dec. 31, 1898 for its schools is 1,362 50
Total payments, $1,417 39
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Schedule C. (balance of principal is invested.)
One share of stock of Old Colony Railroad Com- pany, $180 00
Amount of deposits in Plymouth Savings Bank,
2,602 02
Amount of deposits in Plymouth Five Cent Sav- ings Bank, 993 46
Amount of deposits in Wareham Savings Bank, 268 64
Amount of principal as invested, $4,044 12
Total of schedule B and C, $5,461 51
PUBLIC LIBRARY
CATALOGUE, 1909.
Chambers, Robert W.
The Maid at Arms,
2896
Duncan, Norman
Doctor Luke, 2897
Eddy, Mary Baker
Science and Health, 2898
Glasgow, Ellen
The Voice of the People, 2899
Horton, George
Like Another Helen, 2900
Lincoln, Joseph C. Mr. Pratt, 2901
Macgrath, Harold
The Best Man,
2902
The Grey Cloak, 2903
Mccutcheon, George Barr
Nedra, 2904
Michelson, Miriam
In the Bishop's Carriage,
2905
Tracy, Louis
The Pillar of Light, 2906
Williamson, C. N. and A. M.
The Car of Destiny,
2907
The Princess Virginia,
2908
Wilson, Harry Leon
The Boss of Little Arcady, 2909
Wright, Harold Bell
That Printer of Udell's, 2910
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Miscellaneous,
A Captain in the Ranks, 2911
Water and Game Birds East of the Rockies, 2912
Land Birds East of the Rockies,
2913
Adderley, James Behold the Days Come, 2914
Bates, Arlo
The Intoxicated Ghost, 2915
Begbie, Harold
Tables of Stone, 2916
Benson, Ramsey
A Lord of Lands, 2917
Brudno, Ezra S. The Tether, 2918
Burnham, Clara Louise
Doctor Latimer, 2919
Castle, Agnes and Egerton
2920
Wroth, My Merry Rockhurst,
2921
Cena, Giovanni
The Forewarners, 2922
Conrad, Joseph The Point of Honor, 2923
Conyers, Dorothea
Three Girls and a Hermit,
2924
Corelli, Marie
Holy Orders, 2925
Duncan, Norman
The Cruise of the Shining Light,
2926
Eggleston, George Cary
Dorothy South,
2927
The Master of Warlock,
2928
Emerson, Willis George
2929
The Smoky God,
Glasgow, Ellen
The Ancient Law,
2930
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Harben, Will N.
Abner Daniel,
2931
James, Arthur
Where the Apple Reddens,
2932
Johnson, Owen Max Fargus, 2933
King, Capt. Charles
Between the Lines, 2934
King, Gen. Charles
A Broken Sword, 2935
Macmillar, Jude
A Random Shaft, 2936
Marchmont, Arthur W.
For Love or Crown,
2937
The Heritage of Peril, 2938
Mccutcheon, George Barr Jane Cable, 2939
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
The Man in the Case, 2940
Porter, Eleanor H.
The Turn of the Tide,
2941
Prior, James
A Walking Gentleman,
2943
Richards, Laura E.
Grandmother, 2944
Richardson, Charles
Tales of a Warrior,
2945
Rives, Hallie E.
Satan Sanderson,
2946
Smedley, Constance
Conflict, .
2947
Stringer, Arthur
The Gun Runner, 2948
Taylor, Mary Imlay
The Reaping, 2949
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Thanet, Octave
The Man of the Hour,
2950
Travis, Elma A.
The Cobbler, 2951
Tynan, Katharine The Lost Angel, 2952
Ward, Mrs. Humphrey
The History of David Grieve. 2953
Warren, Maude Radford
The Land of the Living, 2954
Wright, Harold Bell
The Shepherd of the Hills. 2955.
Wister, Owen
How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee, 2956
Armour, Frances J.
The Brotherhood of Wisdom, 2957
Benson, Ramsey
Melchisedec, 2958
Blanchan, Neltje
Birds, 2959
Bourget, Paul
The Weight of the Name, 2960
Broadhurst, George
The Man of the Hour, 2961
Caine, Hall
The White Prophet, 2962
Chambers, Robert W.
Special Messenger, 2963
Crawford, F. Marion
The Diva's Ruby. 2964
Danby, Frank
Sebastian, 2965
Dawson, W. J.
A Soldier of the Future, 2966
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Denton, Clara J.
All the Holidays,
2967
Grant, Robert
The Chippendales, 2968
Green, Anna Katharine
The Chief Legatee, 2969
Hooker, Brian
The Right Man, 2970
Hurd, Marian Kent
When She Came Home From College,
2971
Leroux, Gaston
The Perfume, 2972
Lillibridge, Will
The Quest Eternal, 2973
Lucas, E. V.
Over Bemerton's, 2974
Mason, Roy
When I am Rich, 2975
McCall, Sidney
Red Horse Hill, 2976
Merwin, Bannister
The Girl and the Bill, 2977
Michelson, Miriam
Michael Thwaite's Wife, 2978
Mitchell, S. Weir
The Red City, 2979
Moore, F. Frankfort
The Love That Prevailed, 2980
Olmstead, Stanley
The Emotionalist, 2981
Oppenheim, E. Phillips
The Missioner, 2982
Oppenheim, E. Phillips
The Governors, 2983
Armond, Frederic
The Three Keys, 2984
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Ouida, 2985
Helianthus, Rogers, Julia Ellen Trees, 2986
Sinclair, May
The Immortal Moment,
2987
Stack, Frederick William Wild Flowers, 2988
Stuart, Henry L. Weeping Cross, 2989
Ward, Mrs. Humphrey
Sir George Tressady, Vol. I., 2990 (a)
Sir George Tressady, Vol. II.,
2990 (b)
Warde, Margaret 2991
Betty Wales and Co.,
Wyndham, Horace
Roses and Rue, 2992
Miscellaneous,
Our Holidays, 2993
Alcott, Louisa May
Flower Fables,
2994
A Modern Cinderella, 2995
Arthur, T. S.
Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, 2996
Burnett, Frances H.
The Methods of Lady Walderhurst, 2997
The Making of a Marchioness, 2998
Kathleen, 2999
Caine, Hall
The Eternal City, 3000
Carey, Rosa N.
Merle's Crusade, 3001
Castle, Agnes and Egerton
Flower O' the Orange, 3002
Douglas, Amanda M.
A Little Girl in Old Detroit, 3003
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Eggleston, George C.
Love is the Sun of it All.
3004
Ellis, Elizabeth
Barbara Winslow, Rebel,
3005
Garland, Mamlin
Her Mountain Lover,
3006
Garvice, Charles
Farmer Holt's Daughter,
3007
Sweet Cymbeline,
3008
Her Ransom,
3009
Leslie's Loyalty,
3010
Lorrie,
3011
Passion Flower,
3012
Hancock, H. Irving
The Motor Boat Club of the Kennebec,
3013
The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket, 3014
The Motor Boat Club off Long Island,
3015
The Motor Boat Club and the Wireless,
3016
The Motor Boat Club in Florida,
3017
The Motor Boat Club at the Golden Gate,
3018
Holmes, Mary J. Miss McDonald, 3019
Holmes, Prescott
Lives of the Presidents, 3020
Marchmont, Arthur W.
In the Name of a Woman,
3021
Marlitt, E.
Lady with the Rubies,
3022
In the Schillingscourt, 3023
May, Sophie
Dotty Dimple at her Grandmothers,
3024
Dotty Dimple Out West, 3025
Dotty Dimple at Home,
3026
Dotty Dimple at School,
3027
Dotty Dimple at Play,
3028
Dotty Dimple Flyaway,
3029
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Meade, L. T.
A Girl of the People, 3030
Merry Girls of England,
3031
Girls of True Blue, The Time of Roses,
3033
Otis, James
Josiah in New York, 3034
Phillips, David Graham
The Cost, 3035
Remy, Jean S.
Lives of the Presidents, 3036
Roe, E. P.
Found, Yet Lost, 3037
Schwacofer, Mary A.
Robinson Crusoe,
3038
Tracy, Louis
The Red Year,
3039
White, Stewart Edward
Arizona Nights, 3040
Books for Reference,
Water and Water Rights, Vol. I.,
241
Water and Water Rights, Vol. II., 242
Water and Water Rights, Vol. III., 243
Proceedings of Encampment, G. A. R., 1908.
244
Proceedings of Encampment, G. A. R., 1909,
245
Twelve Months with the 8th Mass. Infantry,
246
History of the 45th Regiment,
247
History of the 40th Regiment,
248
Tenth Mass Infantry,
249
Tenth Mass. Battery, .
250
Vital Records of Ashburnham,
251
. Vital Records of Beverly,
252
Vital Records of Billerica,
253
Vital Records of Brookfield, 254
3032
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Vital Records of Danvers,
255
Vital Records of Dudley,
256
Vital Records of Essex,
257
Vital Records of Holliston,
258
Vital Records of Lincoln,
259
Vital Records of Lynnfield,
260
Vital Records of Marblehead,
261
Vital Records of Marlborough,
262
Vital Records of Methuen,
263
Vital Records of Middlefield,
264
Vital Records of Saugus,
265
Vital Records of Scituate, Vol. 1,
266
Vital Records of Scituate, Vol. 2,
267
Vital Records of Sharon, 268
Vital Records of Spencer,
269
Vital Records of Winchendon,
270
Donations.
Mrs. Louise Savery,
Shakespeare's Complete Works
Mrs. Louise Savery,
The Outlook, 1909
Christian S. Society, Plymouth, Mass.,
Science and Health
Publishers, Middleboro Gazette,
Middleboro News,
Our Dumb Animals.
Woman's Journal.
One paper each issue. Mrs. Mary P. S. Jewett, copies :
Harper's, McClure's, Ladies' Home Journal, The Philistine and others. W. E. W. Vaughan, copies Success Magazine.
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Statistics.
Number of patrons, 280
Number of books taken from the library during the year, 4202
Number of books added during the year, 143
Total number of books in the library, 3039
Number of books for reference,
270
Financial Statement.
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1909, $7.67
Paid out for running expenses,
2.05
Received for fines, etc., during 1909,
9.72
BERNICE E. BARROWS. Librarian, Carver Public Library.
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