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SCIENCE AND EDUCATION.
7-897
Allen, G. B.
Water-color painting
7-889
Bailey, L. H.
Lessons with plants
7-899
Ball, Sir R. S.
Star-Jand
7.903-5
Britton, N. L., and
Brown, Addison. Illustrated flora of the northern United States and Canada 3V
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REPORT OF LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
7.909
7.920
Chapman, F. M, Co-operative build- ing plan associa- tion.
Handbook of birds
7-891
Creevey, C. A.
7-896
Drayson, A. W.
7.919
7-900
7-907
7-90I
Grinnell, G. B., and . Roosevelt,
Theodore, eds. Hallowell, E. M.
Trail and camp fire
Elementary drawing
Hamilton, C. D. P. Modern scientific whist Ingersoll, Ernest. Wild neighbors Knobel, Edward. ¥
Mathews, F. S.
Merriam, F. A. Mott,
Mrs. Hamilton, ed.
Patridge, L. E.
Home games and parties "Quincy methods" illustrated Progressive French drill book A Schneider, Albert. Guide to the study of lichens
Shaler, N. S.
American highways Domesticated animals
Weed, C. M.
Life histories of American in- sects
Wilson, Mrs. L. L. W.
7-916
Gibson, W. H.
..
Shoppell's modern houses. 1897 Flowers of field, hill, and swamp Art of practical whist Evening entertainments for young people
Eye spy My studio neighbors
7-898 7-895 7-910 7-915 7-914 7-894 7-892 7-918
Day butterflies and dusk flyers Night moths of New England Familiar features of the roadside Birds of village and field
7-906 7-917 7-913 7-902 7-912 7-890 7-893
Nature study in elementary schools Nature study: in elementary schools reader
119
REPORT OF LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
7-911
Wright, M. O., and Coues, Elliott. Citizen bird
LITERATURE AND ART.
8-1088
8-1126
Blaze de Bury, Yetta. French literature of today Du Maurier,
George.
Social pictorial satire
8-1090-1125 Garrett, Phineas, comp.
One hundred choice selections
8-1158
Jerome, J. K.
Second thoughts of an idle fellow
8-1083
Morris, William.
Hopes and fears for art
8-1087
Upton, G. P.
Standard cantatas
8-1084
Standard operas
8-1085
Standard oratorios
8-1086
Standard symphonies
8-1089
Van Dyke, J. C.,ed. Modern French masters
8-1127-56
Warner, C. D.,
and others. Library of the world's best lit- erature, ancient and modern
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY.
9-542
Giddings, F. H.
Principles of sociology
9-543
Hyde, W. D.
Practical idealism
9 546
Royce, Josiah.
Studies of good and evil
9-547
Spencer, Herbert. Various fragments
9-544-5
Whiting, Lilian.
World beautiful
SOCIOLOGY.
II-442
Cambridge (Mass.) Citizen's com- mittee. Ten no-license years in Cam- bridge
I20
REPORT OF LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
II-438
Ely, R. T.
Labor movement in America
II-436
Holmes, O. W, jr. Common law
II-437
Morris, William.
Signs of change
II-439
Schaffle, Albert.
Quintessence of socialism
IJ 440
Wyckoff, W. A.
The workers: the east
II 44I
The workers: the west
AGRICULTURE.
13-196
Bailey, L. H.
13-195
13-193
Garden niaking: suggestions for the utilizing of home grounds Nursery book (Garden-craft se- ries) Principles of fruit-growing (Ru- ral science se. ies)
13-194
Roberts, I. P.
Fertility of the land (Rural sci- ence series)
13-198
Root, A. I.
A B C of bee culture
13-197
Somerville, Wm.
Farm and garden insects
FRENCH BOOKS.
17-415 Archard, Amedee. La sabotiere
17-4II
Boileau, Nicholas. Oeuvres poetiques
17-416 Bossuet, J. B.
Discours sur l'histoire univer- selle
17-441-5 Brunetiere,
Ferdinand.
Etudes critiques sur l'histoire de la litterature francaise
17-433
Claretie, Jules.
Mademoiselle Cachemire
17-434
Clement, Jules.
Traite de la politesse
17-421 Daudet, Alphonse. Le petit chose
17-438-9 Dickens, Charles
Aventures de M. Pickwick
17-414
Feuillet, Octave.
La veuve
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REPORT OF LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
17-410
France, Anatole, pseud.
L'orme du mail
17-412
Gautier, Theophile. Emaux et camees
17-417
Karr, Alphonse.
La famille Alain
17-435
Pour ne pas etre treize
17-432
66
Sous les tilleuls
17-426-31 Lemaitre, Jules.
Les contemporains: etudes et portraits litteraircs
17-446-7
Maistre, J. M., Comte de. Marmier, Xavier. Moliere, J. B. P. Montesquieu,
Soirees de St. Petersbourg
Les drames du coeur
17-423-5
17-437
Charles de Secon- dat, Baron de. De la grandeur des Romains Raymond,Mme Em- meline. Lecons de conture,crochet, tricot-
17-419
Souvestre, Emile. Au bord du lac
17-420
Au coin du feu
17-413
16
Recits et souvenirs
17-418
66
Trois mois de vacances
Topffer, Rodolphe. Le bibliotheque de mon oncle
REFERENCE BOOKS.
R-827 A-49 R-835
Adams, O. F. Dictionary of American authors Carpenter, E. W.,
and Morehouse, C. F. History of the town of Amherst (Ammidown library)
Munsell's sons, Joel. Index to American genealogies publishers. and to genealogical material contained in local histories
17-436
Oeuvres completes
17-440
17-422
122
REPORT OF LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
R-837-5 I New England historical and genealogical register. V. 37-51. 1883-97
R-822 New topographical atlas of Worcester county
R-836 Simmonds, P. L. Dictionary of useful animals and their products
R-826
Worcester directory. 1898
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Farm and Almshouse.
Amount of orders drawn in this department, $2,447.29.
Whole number of inmates during the year, twenty-five, with an average of twenty all the year.
The net cost of $2.22 per week, includes services of super- intendent and matron, hired help and telephone service. The difference in the net cost this year and last is caused by a gain in the inventory last year.
This year there was a shrinkage. The farm did not pro- duce as much this year as last.
The Overseers had all the old beds removed and new iron beds, mattresses and white spreads put in, also one dozen and a half of chairs and a couch for the inmates, which adds to the net cost.
For the ensuing year we recommend an appropriation of $ 2,000, same as last year, and $200 for repairs. The balance in this department is $463.39.
The management of the property by Mr. and Mrs. George F. Northup, as superintendent and matron, for the past twenty years has been to the satisfaction and approval of the Overseers. Mr. and Mrs. Northup decline to serve another year. The
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REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Overseers have engaged Mr. and Mrs. William McDonald for the ensuing year.
We desire to call your attention to the much needed altera- tions to the interior of the almshouse The sanitary arrange- ments of the house are very poor there being only one bath tub in the house and that is situated in the laundry and not supplied with hot or cold water. In winter it is impossible to use it.
We have but one furnace in the house and it is impossible to keep the old people warm. We recommend putting in steam and to allow the erection of an addition to the present almshouse so the sick and very old can be kept warm and be on the first floor. We recommend that the sum of $2,500 be appropriated for this purpose.
The present building is too crowded, and there is no oppor- tunity for the proper separation of the sexes. The building asked for would remedy such a condition of affairs and we again respectfully ask that the needs of this department be considered.
L. WESLEY CURTIS, F. GATINEAU, GEORGE J. LAMOUREUX, Overseers of the Poor.
Inventory of Personal Property.
AT THE ALMSHOUSE AND FARM, FEBRUARY 28, 1899.
$1,041 50
Class I, Stock,
2, Hay and grain, 471 84
3, Carts, wagons and farming tools, 896 17
4, Household furniture, 310 60
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REPORT OF OVERSERS OF THE POOR,
5, Beds and bedding,
365 00
6, Family supplies,
305 II
$3,390 22
Inventory of 1898,
$3,979 99
Shrinkage over last year, $589 77
HENRY A. MORSE,
W. H. H. CHENEY,
DR. L. W. CURTIS,
Appraisers.
Inmates of Almshouse.
The following persons have been inmates a part or all of the year. Those marked * were inmates March 1, 1899.
*Charles Congdon,
aged 53
Lucy Harding, died May 4, 1898,
aged 68
John Murphy, died May 20, 1898,
aged 74
Catherine Welsh, died Nov. 28, 1898, aged 82
*Daniel Holden,
aged 78
*Regina Fogle,
aged 77
*Sarah J. McColgan,
aged 59
*Thomas Kerwin, aged 56
*John Mack
aged 78
*Caroline Clarke, Louis Homans,
aged 86
aged 70
*Ann Co.drick,
*Catherine Foley,
aged 63 aged 76
128
REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
* Julia Carney, aged 71
aged 53
*Pliny Whitney, Huldah Tilton, died Dec. 13, 18.,8,
aged 65
*Abraham Lavallec, aged 83
Ann Mitchell, died Jan. 9, 1899,
aged 68
*Catherine Monahan,
aged 8 1
*O. Herber,
aged 18
*Augustus Murray,
aged 66
Alfred Largesse,
aged 25
*Johanna Sullivan,
aged 41
Oliver Bison,
Catherine Kinny,
Twenty-five in all, average twenty.
Outside Poor.
During the past year there have been about the same num- ber in need of assistance as in previous years. The calls for aid in some cases have been quite heavy on account of sickness. In this department there is due from the state $700 and some out- standing bills.
The amount of orders drawn, $6,475 18
This includes for the insane at hospitals, 1,995 80
Paid other towns for persons having settlements in this town, 248 65
Paid for persons having settlements in other towns, 298 25
Paid for the state for unsettled persons, 736 45
Paid for 1501 tramps,
150 IO
Total expense to town, 5.440 48
Balance in this department,
45 65
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REPORT OF OVERSERS OF THE POOR,
For the ensuing year we recommend an appropriation of $ 5000.
INMATES AT HOSPITALS.
Hendrick L. Smith,
Edward H. Hill,
Thomas Boyle,
John Brogan,
James Minns,
Josephine Lavallee,
Nozaine Lamonthe,
Onesine Capistrand,
Mary Pratt,
Christina Stewart.
Mary A. Kavanaugh,
John Coldrick.
Account of Cash
James Monroe, for hospital charges, paid in full, $169 46 Town of Sturbridge, a'd to Mrs. Moses Mominee, 15 00 " 66 Benjamin Guertin, 15 00
" Wales,
Susan Lenc,
22 00
City of Holyoke
Frank Deforge, IO CO
City of Springfield,
Charles Labreck, SI CO
Town of Sutton, 66
Mrs. E. P. Frost, 74 50
North Hadley,
Narcisse Daignault, 35 50
Town of Greenfield,
Peter Raymond, 21 00
Joseph Gingras, aid to his children,
12 0
Catherine Welsh, cash received for her burial,
15 00
Geo. F Northup, sale of produce at farm,
113 47
$583 93
L. WESLEY CURTIS, F. GATINEAU, GEORGE J. LAMOUREUX, Overseers of the Poor.
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL
COMMITTEE.
OFFICE OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE, SOUTHBRIDGE, March 14, 1899.
The Chairman and Superintendent presented the annual reports for the school year ending March 3, 1899.
Voted to accept the reports and adopt them as the report of the Committee.
J. T. CLARKE, Secretary.
School Officials.
School Committee for 1898=9.
F. X. TETRAULT, . Term Expires 1899
HENRY WHITTAKER,
Term Expires 1899
ALVA HYDE,
Term Expires 1900
G. W. PENNIMAN,
Term Expires 1900
GEORGE M. LOVELL, . Term Expires 1901
SILVANUS HAYWARD,
Term Expires 1901
Officers of School Board.
REV. SILVANUS HAYWARD, Chairman. GEORGE M. LOVELL, Secretary.
Regular monthly meeting first Tuesday evening at S o'clock.
J. T. CLARKE, Superintendent of Schools and Clerk of the Board. Office, Town Hall.
Office Hours : School days, 3.30 to 5 p. m. ; 7 10 7.30 Tuesday, Thursdays. and Saturday evenings.
Report of School Committee.
TO THE CITIZENS OF SOUTHBRIDGE:
The principal school event of the year has been the erec- tion and occupancy of the new Grammar school building on Marcy street. After full twenty years persistent effort of con- tinually changing Committees, the town is to be congratulated on the possession of a finely located, elegant and commodious building, probably unsurpassed in any town of this size in the state. No more profitable investment can be made than what- ever adds to the comfort, convenience, and attractivess of school accommodations The highest qualification of a teacher is enthusiasm, for this implies, inspires, or produces almost every other qualification. And scarcely anything can more surely and and fatally quench the fire of enthusiasm than uncomfortable, inconvenient, and insufficient school rooms and furnishings- A Mark Hopkins may train a boy for the Presidency, sitting on a log in the forest, but his life work will be immeasurably great- er and better with the abundant apparatus, libraries and accom- modations of a well-equipped college.
Much is said, and perhaps none too much, about keeping up with the increasing knowledge of the age. But it is impor- tant to distinguish between true and false progress. An "up-to- date" definition says, "Nine means the mental concept we have formed of the relation th it is permanently sustained by one thing to any nine things of like kind " On which one has remarked, "If this is true, it is a solemn commentary upon the fleeting
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nature of human information." The definition is a fair speci- men of much that now-a-days poses for profound wisdom in treating of the amazing "Science of Pedagogy," so called. A golden rule in teaching is that the true way to learn anything is to do it. A fairly intelligent person visiting a weave-room or a school-room can give a general estimate of the efficiency of weavers or teachers, but only one who has successfully served at the loom or in the teacher's desk. can be at all competent to criticise the quility, or the methods of the work. Theories framed by study and mere observation are worthless in the pres- ence of successful experience, which alone gives true knowledge. Though little learned in books, a common-sense mother who has reared half-a-dozen children to respectable manhood and woman- hood knows far more of the best methods of treating child nature than the prof. undest philosopher who out of his own consciousnes , (1 from visiting many schools, discourses on the "Psychology of Childhood" as the entomologist discourses of the beetle he has impaled upon a pin. A large part of what is said upon these subjects is the product of imagination, some- times supposed to be confirmed by artificial and misleading "tests." But notwithstanding all this, there is true growth and valub'e progress in the Art of Teaching and it is the constant and united purpose of Committee, Superintendent and Teach- ers to keep abreast of the real knowledge and the best methods of to-day. We believe that our teachers, as a whole, are doing good work which will compare well with that of like grades in other towns of the State. And in this connection, it is but just to say that the success of our schools is largely due to the faithful, wise and progressive management of our Super- intendent seeking impartially to secure the best gool of both teachers and pupils.
It is with great regret that the Committee find themselves compelled to ask for increasel accommodvions for the High school, the rooms being entire'y inadequate for the number of
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pupils to be provided for during the coming year. When the plan for the present rooms was under consideration, the School Committee of that year foresaw this necessity and set it plainly before the Building Committee, but their predictions were only laughed at. A new High School building must of course be the ultimate solution, as it will not be many years before two- hundred will have to be accommodated. But the Committee are well aware that the financial condition of the town precludes any immediate action in that direction. So they ask for the enlarge- ment of the main room, to meet the present emergency.
We hope every parent will give careful consideration to the Financial Statement and the Superintendent's Report herewith presented as a constituent part of our report. We believe the money intrusted to our hands has been wisely and prudently ex- pended. We invite your special attention to what is said of parents' visiting schools and becoming acquainted with the teachers in their work. We add that a familiar talk, now and then, with the Superintendent, in regard to the work and pro- gress of your children, would be a help on both sides.
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Financial Statement.
High School.
Balance from last year,
$777 13
Appropriation,
2.800 00
Tuition from other towns,
326 80
$3.903 93
Common School ?.
Balance from last year,
$557 21
Appropriation,
15.500 00
Tuition from other towns,
24 00
-$16,181 21
Contingent Schools.
Balance from last year,
$10 55
Appropriation,
3,550 00
Books, supplies, etc., sold,
40 80
$3,601 35
Apparatus.
Balance from last year, 1I 99
Appropriation 200 00
$211 99.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Evening Schools.
Balance last year, Appropriation,
$25 14 650 00
$675 14
Total resources,
$24,573 62
The committee have expended :
High School.
Salaries of teachers,
$2,902 ( 0
Janitor and fuel,
500 00
- $3,402 00
Common Schools.
Salaries of superintendent and teachers, $ 11,823 65 Care of buildings,
1,070 70
Fuel,
1,253 84
Tuition,
68 co
Transportation,
60 00
Educational lectures,
81 96
- $14,358 15
Contingent Schools.
For books,
$794 85
For supplies,
836 61
For repairs,
1,243 04
For incidentals,
720 15 - $3.594 65
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Apparatus.
For apparatus, chemicals and books of reference, $200 12
Evening Schools.
Teachers,
$386 50
Care of rooms,
53 85
Fuel and lights,
34 71
Rent,
35 00
Books and supplies,
78 36
Incidentals,
57 30
$645 72
Total expenditures, Balance in hands of treasurer, $2,372 98
$22,200 64
Books and supplies on hand, not distributed,
$641 25
Appropriation for Next Year.
High School-
Teachers,
$ 3.200 00
Janitor and fuel,
500 00
$3,700 00
Common Schools-
Teachers and Superintendent,
$ 12,000 00
Janitors,
1,500 00
Fuel,
1,300 00
Tuitions,
100 00
Transportation,
100 00
$15,000 00
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Contingent Schools-
Books,
$900 00
Supplies,
850 00
Repairs, ordinary $600 ; special $400,
1,000 00
Incidentals,
900 00
$3,650 00 -
Apparatus,
200 00
Evening schools,
650 00
Respectfully submitted in behalf of the Committee,
SILVANUS HAYWARD, Chairman.
Southbridge, March 17, 1899.
Superintendent's Report.
TO THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF SOUTHBRIDGE:
Gentlemen: The annual report for the year 1898-9 is here- with respectfully submitted. This is the fourteenth of the series of annual reports from this office and the thirteenth of the present superintendent.
Statistics for the Year 1898-9.
Population of the Town, State census, 1895, 8,250
Valuation of the Town for 1898, $3,698, 190
Number of polls, 1,618
Number of children between 5 and 15 years of age,
1,685
Number enrolled in public schools during the year,
1,301
Number under 5 years of age,
28
Number over 15 years of age,
128
Number between 5 and 15,
1,137
Number between 8 and 14.
687
Average number belonging,
995.42
Average daily attendance, 918.02
Per cent. of attendance, 92.22
Number of elected teachers employed March 1, 1899,
31
Number of helpers employed March 1, 1899,
2
143
RE ORT OF S HOOL COMMITTEE.
Cost Per Pupil.
Current expenses, including teaching, fuel and care of buildings, $17,760 15
Cost per pupil, based on total enrollment, 13 65
Cost per pupil, based on average enrollment, 17 84
Total expenditures, less permanent repairs, 22,200 64
Cost per pupil based on whole number, 17 06
Cost per pupil based on average enrollment, 22 29
Cost per pupll in High school, 38 49
Through the courtesy of the instructors we are able to give the following statistics of the parochial schools:
Number enrolled at the Notre Dame Parochial school,
746
Average number belonging,
709
Average attendance, 632
Per cent. of attendance, 89.99
Total enrollment at St. Mary's Parochial school, 170
Average number belonging,
I54
Average attendance, 14I
Per cent. of attendance,
93.50
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Statistics of Attendance.
SCHOOLS.
Grade.
Whole number en-
rolled.
Average number be-
longing.
Average attendance.
Per cent. of attend-
Per cent. of tardiness
Number of weeks
and days of school.
High School, Grammar-Marcy street,
120
88.38
S4 90
96.26
3.87
38-4
53
45.47
42.93
94.41
4.15
37
33
24.83
23.80
95.84
1.39
37
39
32.99
31.53
95.57
1.41
36-4
VI
38
34.36
33.43
96.53
1.15
37-1
66
66
VI
44
31.17
28.40
91.10
1.79
37-1
66
66
V
62
56.27
42 32
75.21
2.24
37
48
40
35.56
88.90
1.16
37
Primary-Main street, -
III
44
38.53
35.81
93
2.36
37
II
48
44.43
38.07
85.67
.94
36-4
I
45
33.15
30.40
91.72
1.62
37
66
I
59
39.49
36.27
91.84
IV
47
38.96
36.50
96.68
2.95
36-3
III
39
28.01
28.71
27.33
95.19
1.49
37
66
46
41.16
39.08
94.95
1.06
36-4
River street, -
56
29.59
28.04
94.76
1.82
37-1
55
35.66
34.91
97.89
1.20
37-1
58
44.03
40.40
91.71
2.22
37
66
52
35.92
34.24
95.32
1.17
37
Carpenter.
62
37.61
35.55
94.53
1.56
37
81
51.41
48.26
93.87
3.56
37
Ungraded-Ammidown,
48
36.11
33.09
91.63
1.73
37-2
Bacon, -
17
14.47
12.39
85.61
2.59
36
Hooker, -
26
18.25
15.44
S4.60
.11
37-1
1301
995.42 918 02
92.22
2.16
37
66
IX VIII VII
48
46.46
43.07
92.66
3.19
37
36-4
School street,
.95
37
II
33
I II-III I
Elm street,
IV I II-III I I-V I-VIII I-V
26.30
93.90
ance.
to each pupil.
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Corps of Teachers, March 1, 1899.
Name.
Salary.
Date of first
election.
Gride.
Graduated.
J. T. Clarke,
$1,409 1886 Superintend't Dartmouth College.
F. E. Corbin, -
1,300/1886 Prin. High Sc. Williams College. 800 1898 Assistant.
Everett P'. Casey, Elizabeth Perry, - *Blanche Wheeler,
600 1897 . .
200,1898
Harvard College. Wellesley College. College of Oratory.
Laura E. Shepardson, Alice Holmes, -
500 1897 IX.
500 1878 VII.
Per
Month.
Isabel P. Taylor, -
46 1890 VIII.
*Mary E. Meagher,
40 1887 VI.
Margaret E. Dougherty, Louisa O. Twombly, - *J. Eva Conner,
40 1897 VI.
40 1892 V.
Salem Normal Sc. Worcester Normal.
Abigail C. Hitchcock, *A. Rebecca Rowley, Mary Page,
36 1899 IV.
Alice B. Aldrich,
36 1889 IIT.
36 1896 III.
36 1887 II and III.
36 1885 II and III.
36 1891 II.
32 1898 II.
Southbridge H. S.
36 1883 I.
Southbridge H. S.
*Agnes M. Meagher, - Susan M. Knight, -
Southbridge H. S. Southbridge H. S.
Mabel J. Newell,
36 1892 I.
Mary E. McCabe, -
36 1890 I.
Margarett G. Butler,
36 1893 I.
Ida M. Plimpton, - Lizzie E. Morse,
36 1897 66
*Jennie Simpson,
32 1897 66
24 1896 Helper.
Winnifred M. Kinney, H. Genevieve Hyde, Ethel Seavey,
24 1896
16 1899 40 1898 Substitute.
Elizabeth Searles,
*Anna F. Eager,
Mrs. H. N. Carpenter,
yr.500 1896 Drawing. Music.
Southbridge H. S. Southbridge H. S. Framingham Norm'l. Southbridge H. S. Southbridge H. S. Southbridge H. S. Berwick Academy. Normal Art School.
* P. O. address, Globe Village, Mass.
Bridgewater Normal. Southbridge H. S. Johnson Normal. Worcester Normal. Brimfield High Sc. Quincy Training. Southbridge II. S- Southbridge H. S.
Clara P. Chase, -
*Jane Farquhar, Martha Cutting, Mary L. Boardman, *Nettie V. Stone, *Mary A. Ellis,
36 1886 I.
36 1858 I.
Southbridge H. S. Quincy Training. Southbridge H. S.
40 1886 Ungraded.
Southbridge H. S. Southbridge H. S. Framingham Norm'l.
40 1898 V.
40 1898 V.
36 1865 IV.
Nichols Academy. Palmer High School.
Grammar.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Attendance Roll of Honor.
List of pupils reported as perfect in attendance, neither absent nor tardy during the year. Others have always been in their places except when detained by sicknes.
Robert Charlton, Charles Wood,
Mamie Mckinstry,
Willie O'Halloran, Mennan Morse,
Edward LeClair.
John Brennan, Joseph Flood,
Perfect in attendance two terms: Harriet Dougherty, Bessie Goodell,
Walter Maguire,
Frank Morrissey,
Guy Olney,
William Shephard,
Leona Paine,
Lillie MacNie,
Arthur LaCroix,
Ethel Simmons, Maud Phipps,
William Flood,
Etta Herber, Leo Dumas,
Earl Payne,
May F. Kelly,
Henry Smith, Fred Lombard,
Napoleon Senecal,
Lucy Putney,
Persis Rowley,
Everett Simmons,
Hector Blair,
Philip Tetrault,
Marion Simpson,
Armede Delage,
Amy Montville,
Wilfred Blaine, George McFarland,
Minnie Cook,
Ray Plimpton, Evelyn Gagnon,
Bernedette St. Onge, Napoleon Blanchard, Eugenie Tetrault,
Oliver Dumas,
Lydia Tetrault,
Tellesfore Leduc,
Amedia Richards,
Mathew Morrissey, Florence LaVallee,
Alexina McDermott,
George Tully, John Power.
Lienne Tetraulx,
Alberta McDermott,
121 others have been perfect in attendance one term.
In the enrollment of the school children last May the offi- cer found 1685 between the ages of 5 and 15 years, 23 less than in the previous year. In the schools the total number enrolled is 26 more than last year, the average enrollment 125 more, showing less variation between the total and average enroll- ment than in previous years. The per cent. of attendance for
Melina Boucher,
Aldoria Gagnon, Arthur St. Onge,
Mabel Cook,
Delty Delage, Oscar Gatineau,
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
the year is 1.59 lower than last year, due undoubtedly to the interruptions caused by the severity of the storms and the un- usual prevalence of sickness.
There are recorded in the school register 544 visits during the year of parents and interested friends, not including those of the Superintendent and special teachers.
Our schools are open to visitors at all times, and parents, especially, are most cordially invited to visit the class-rooms during the sessions, to become better acquainted with the teachers of their children in their daily relations. A better knowledge of the spirit and motives of the teachers and their methods of work will tend to mutual sympathy and helpfulness, and misunderstandings may often be avoided, or more readily adjusted.
The following table shows the statistics for the past seven years.
May Enroll- Total Enroll Average num- Per cent of ment. ment in the ber belonging attendance Schools.
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