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Miss F. C. Swift,
84 00
Miss S. L. Howard,
96 00
Miss N. Forman,
90 00
for Incidentals,
77 93
$437 93
COCHESETT DISTRICT.
Paid Mr. C. H. Dunbar,
$237 00
Miss K. H. Brett,
$174 00
Mr. Jabez Gould,
8 73
for incidentals,
67 50
$487 23
JERUSALEM DISTRICT.
Paid Miss F. J. Randall,
$210 00
for incidentals,
32 38
#342 38
COPELAND DISTRICT.
Paid Miss W. J. Dexter,
$2 40
Miss M. E. Ryder,
27 60
Miss M. K. Hall,
84 00
Miss L. L. Holden,
99 80
for incidentals,
22 85
$236 65
2,000 00
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NORTH DISTRICT.
Paid Miss S. S. Monroe, for incidentals,
$186 00
29 38
$215 38
BEAVER DISTRICT.
Paid Rev. B. Sanford, $107 32
EAST DISTRICT.
Paid Mr. S. J. Dunbar,
$125 00
96 00
Miss M. F. Thayer for incidentals,
59 54
$280 54
SOUTH DISTRICT.
Paid Miss F. E. Crafts,
$96 00
Miss A. M. Randall,
90 00
Miss S. N. Stackpole,
96 00
for incidentals,
37 94
for sending scholars to Bridgewater,
4 37
$323 31
The appropriation for repairing School Houses was $1100.
Paid F. E. Howard, for house lot, Centre District, $80 00
for moving and fitting a house in Centre District, 769 29
repairs on the large house in Centr. District, Cochesett house,
71 25
Jerusalem House,
132 38
East District House, 89 40
blinds, &c., and fencing lot, South District,
53 50
$1,200 07
Excess of payments, $100.07.
4 25
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INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
The appropriation for Incidental Expenses was $800.00.
Paid for Town Officers and service,
$457 88
For blank books and stationery, 13 95
For rent of Town Hall, 75 00
For rent of Selectmen's office,
20 00.
For printing,
93 73
Interest, 497 34
Abatement of taxes, 68 16
Claim of George Talbot, for building road in 1861, 23 12 For Guide Posts, 36 50
For change of school-books by Committee,
101 10
For school-books to children by 66
10 97
For maps and charts, furnished by " 15 05
For Hearse,. 483 50
For fitting a room for do.,
28 16
Two month's interest on do.,
5 83
F. Cornwall, damage sustained on road,
10 00
Other items,
33 54
$1,973 83
Excess of payments, $1,173.83.
SUPPORT OF THE POOR.
The appropriation for the support of the Poor was $500.00.
There was drawn from the Treasury, under that head, $1,- 155.83 ; but there has been a new building erected and repairs made, costing $315.25 ; a horse, wagon and harness bought, costing $175.00; and an ox-cart at $25.00 ;- making in all $515.25, for which no appropriation was made. Leaving the amount drawn for the immediate support of the Poor but $640.58 ; which exceeds the appropriation $140.58. The sum of $176.78 has been paid for paupers out of the Almshouse, leaving the sum which has been drawn for the direct support of the poor in the House, $468.80.
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TOWN OFFICERS.
Paid Austin Packard, Town Clerk services, &c. $41 13
Francis E. Howard, Selectman, &c. 9 00
James Howard, Selectman, Assessor, &c. 131 00
Caleb Copeland, jr. " 66 24 00
Shepherd L. Pratt, " 66 30 25
Thomas Pratt, Constable service, 3 25
Simeon J. Dunbar, Superintendent of the schools, 92 00 Bradford Packard, School Committee and expenses, 17 75 Geo. M. Pratt, Treasurer, &c. 80 00
James Copeland, service, 10 00
. H. H. Whitman and E. Tisdale, Auditors, 4 00
For going with hearse and tolling bells, 15 50
$457 88
ALMSHOUSE.
DR.
Paid E. Hancock, Salary,
$237 50
For corn and feed,
241 18
8 1-8 bbls. flour,
138 52
Meat and fish,
74 30
Tallow,
4 88
Groceries,
84 36
Salt,
6 58
Clothing and dry goods,
112 42
Soap,
11 98
Hay,
18 65
Pasture,
3 00
Seeds,
7 58
Fertilizers,
26 00
Tools,
8 18
Ox cart,
25 00
Horse, carriage, and harness,
175 00
Neat stock,
72 50
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Paid for use of team,
4 25
Furniture,
3 68
Medicines,
6 21
2 years' saw bill,
56 84
Work,
54 42
Other items,
10 92
Repairs, and new building,
170 24
Amount,
$1,554 20
Value of personal property, March 1, 1867,
1,793 57
Interest on the estate, as heretofore,
231 81
$3,579 58
CR.
By labor off the farm,
$112 84
Warden's labor on new building,
30 00
Lumber for
115 00
Potatoes,
46 40
Butter,
42 20
Cheese,
18 41
Lard,
14 75
Calf,
14 17
Yearling,
25 00
Pork,
34 66
Pigs,
13 00
Chickens and eggs,
59 71
Straw,
7 50
Other items,
11 50
Cash paid to town,
118 62
Amount,
$663 76
INVENTORY OF STOCK.
72 tons English hay,
137 50
3 " meadow
36 00
8 bushels corn,
12 00
rye,
6 30
barley,
5 25
25
potatoes,
25 00
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3 pecks beans,
3 50
140 lbs. ham,
21 00
300 « pork,
45 00
200 " beef,
26 00
Tallow,
5 00
12 lbs. candles,
1 50
40 " butter,
19 20
72 " cheese,
14 40
75 " lard,
13 50
Flour and groceries,
13 00
2 oxen,
225 00
4 cows,
240 00
1 bull,
60 00
2 yearlings,
40 00
1 horse,
100 00
3 swine,
40 00
28 fowls,
28 00
Covered wagon and harness,
50 00
Furniture and farming tools,
350 00
100 loads of manure,
100 00
$1,617 15
BILLS DUE THE HOUSE.
From E. Hancock,
28 86
Dr. J. C. Swan,
15 26
Cyrus Alger,
2 87
Columbus Alger,
6 46
the State,
18 00
Almond Rounds,
2 00
Alger & Dunbar,
13 20
H. G. O. Skinner,
4 50
A. N. Peckham,
13 00
George Hayward,
4 17
other sources,
37 00
$145 32
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Total Credit, Balance against the House,
$2,426 23
$1,153 35
Deduct cost of new building and repairs,
$315 25
interest on the estate,
231 81
$547 06
The cost of the Poor in the House above the proceeds of the Farm will appear to be $606.29.
Number of weeks' board, 284.
Cost per week for full support, $2.13+.
Average number in the House during the year, 516g.
Number of inmates, Feb. 29th, 5.
POOR OUT OF THE ALMSHOUSE.
Paid for conveying Catharine Cook to State Almshouse, $4 00 Flint & Savels, for goods furnished Sarah A. Pike, 5 00
G. M. Leach, for clothing furnished Jeptha Leach, 28 78
Jonas Leonard, for support and funeral charges of Herbert Leonard, 30 00
Howard, Clark & Co., for coffin for Redden Carr, 15 00
G. M. Leach, for board of Jeptha Leach, 17 00
Geo. Leonard & Bro., for goods furnished Daniel T. Eaton, 12 00
Town of Randolph, for support of Abbie Fadden and children, 85 00
Town of Easton, for support of A. A. Janus, 12 00
Town of North Bridgewater, for support of Sarah A. Pike and children, 10 00
D. Cobb, for goods furnished S. A. Pike and children, 8 00
$176 78
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By the usual proceedings, the Selectmen are called upon to give an estimate of the probable wants of the Town for the en- suing year ; and, in compliance with that custom, we present the following estimate of current necessary expenses, for the con- sideration of the Town ; excepting the appropriation for Schools, which we leave for another body to report.
The actual debt of the Town over and above the cash assets, is $2,560.84, being $694.36 less than reported March 1st, 1867, and which will be reduced during the year, to about $2,000, without any special appropriation, we think. The estimate for interest may appear large for the amount of debt, to one unac- quainted with the circumstances; but when they consider that the Town does not receive from the State the aid disbursed to soldiers and their families, short of from one and a half to three years after paying it out; and that we are always obliged to hire the money to pay the State and County taxes; they can perceive the necessity.
ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES.
Support of the Poor,
$800 00
Repairing Roads and Bridges,
1,600 00
Interest,
450 00
Town Officers and Incidental Expenses,
650 00
$3,500 00
If you add for Schools, as last year,
2,000 00
We have
$5,500 00
or $2,400.00 less than was raised for similar objects last year.
JAMES HOWARD,
Selectmen
CALEB COPELAND, JR.,
of
SHEPHERD L. PRATT, West Bridgewater.
March 1st, 1868.
The annual Town Meeting will take place on Monday, the 23d inst, at one o'clock, P. M.
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF HIGHWAYS.
The appropriation for highways was
$2,500 00
Balance in the Treasury, March 1, 1867,
380 67
Total,
$2,880 67
Drawn from the Treasury during the year,
2,628 97
Leaving now in the Treasury,
$251 70
Of the above appropriation, about $1,125.00 had been ex- pended previously, for clearing the roads from snow and repair- ing damages caused by a freshet, but not drawn from the Treas- ury ; leaving but $1,755.00 to work with. And of that a large amount has been expended in making extraordinory repairs of defects caused by the freshets of February and July, 1867, viz : On Scotland road, about $106 00
The swamp road toward Raynham,
250 00
Different places in Jerusalem, 110 00
In Cochesett, about
30 00
By the N. Alger bridges,
16 00
Flaggy meadow bridge,
21 00
Pine Hill bridge,
15 00
Other places, about
50 00
Amounting to $598 00
For building the road near S. N. Howard's,
$155 00
For putting in a culvert and raising the grade of the . road near Ames' Mill, 55 00
For scraping the roads and picking off stones,
155 00
For cutting bushes and trees beside the roads,
35 00
For removing 35 cords of stones from Bull's Hole
Gravel Hill, and trenching, and burying them in the road from Baker and Williams' store toward's the mill, 107 00
For carting gravel, and other small jobs, about.
385 00
Estimated expense of clearing roads from snow,
250 00
For Superintendent's services,
40 00
Total contracts, and estimates for snow,
$2,905 00
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About $210.00 of the contracts for work has not been paid, the work not being finished ; and about $184.00 for snow clearing has been paid, which, if the estimate for that purpose is correct will leave unpaid of that estimate, $66 00
210 00
Total unpaid,
$276 00
251 70
Making a deficit in the treasury of
$24 30
The putting the roads in town under the care of one person as Superintendent, during the last year, was an experi- ment. But our roads were in a very unfavorable condition to show the comparative operation of a new system, or any change, they having been very badly washed and gullied, and bridges thrown down, &c .; and whether more or less has been done under the circumstances, we cannot say.
Our town is very jealous of proposed changes, and we. well know that changes are not always improvements. Yet, from ex- perience and observation we are very sure that a system having but one head, or one body with several members, that may create for itself a head, would be more effective and economical for repairing the roads, than our former system, some of the evils of which we will point out, viz: Each district, being a pre- cinct by itself, has no interest in common with other parts, so far as concerns repairing the roads ; which has often made it neces- sary to spend the money on sections of road which needed re- pairs less than others did ; and which have been, sometimes, made poorer by having piles of gravel dumped upon them. And then the Surveyors thus located, sometimes, make their sense of duty subordinate to private advantage, and not unfre- quently the public funds are so appropriated, that under pretence of doing public service, private interests are subserved. Also putting for Surveyors inexperienced and impractical men, making it expedient sometimes to undo what a predecessor attempted to do; instances of which can be pointed out in this Town. Another difficulty is depending upon laborers who have business enough of their own.
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Our roads need improving. And the most important point of all, both in economy and comfort, is the constant attention that removes a stone the day it appears on the road, and puts a shovel- ful of new material where it is wanted, before a rain or other cause makes a cartful necessary, instead ; and that will not allow puddles of water to remain in the road longer than until it is possible to remove them. It is well known that a perfectly dry road, of whatever materials formed, provided the surface is smooth, is a good one.
To effect these objects requires some force, more or less, constant- ly at work, making these small repairs wherever defects appear.
We would therefore recommend that the town choose three Surveyors of Highways who shall act as one body, without regard to locality and who shall have the care of the roads and bridges, and repair them as they think expedient. And that they be recommended to employ at least one good man to work on the roads constantly, as an experiment.
JAMES HOWARD, Superintendent.
LIQUOR AGENCY, - A. COPELAND, Agent.
The Agent has received for liquors sold, $865 12
And has paid for liquors,
$654 07
Agent's salary, 75 00
$729 07
CR. By stock on hand March 1, 1868, Cash,
$84 48
315 00
$399 48
DR. To stock on hand March 1, 1867, Cash,
$190 10
109 02
$299 12
Gain,
$100 36
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LIST OF JURORS,
PREPARED BY TIIE SELECTMEN OF WEST BRIDGEWATER FOR THE YEAR 1868.
Davis Alger, Samuel D. Bartlett,
Cyrus P. Brown,
James Copeland,
Albert Copeland,
Edward Capen, Charles E. Churchill, Barnabas Dunbar,
Lucius Dunbar,
Martin Dunbar,
James A. Fobes,
Perez P. Field, Lucius Gurney,
Josiah Q. Hartwell,
Amasa Howard,
George Hayward, James Howard, Friend W. Howard, John B. Holmes, Leavitt T. Howard, Lucius Hayward, Linus E. Hayward, James S. Holmes, Cyrus Leonard, Nahum Packard, George D. Ryder, Ephraim T. Snell, Erland Thayer, Abiel Washburn.
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DEATHS RECORDED IN WEST BRIDGEWATER FOR THE YEAR 1867.
Age.
Date.
Name.
Disease or cause of Death.
Y. M. D.
Jan. 3 Charles Ames,
72 3 22 Gravel.
4 Michael Kelliher,
20 10 9 Consumption.
12 Mary Denehoe,
33 0 Consumption.
Feb. 1 David Bartlett,
89 0 4 Old Age.
M'rch 2 Nicholas Dunbar, 7 Melvin O. Bailey,
.
6 1 26 Congestion of Lungs.
9 Job Bartlett,
68 2 4 Erysipelas.
April 3 Benjamin B. Howard,
79 1. 1 Paralysis.
May 5 Johannah Welch,
4 10 23 Accidental drowning.
13 Freeman Howard,
64 1 19 Suicide.
28 Herbert Leonard,
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3 24 Consumption.
June 24 Marian Caldwell, 27 Johanna M. Hickey,
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9 29 Consumption.
July 17 Ellen A. Soule,
20 11
8 Consumption.
Aug. 9 George Pratt,
60
9 10 Cancerous Tumor.
60
6 6 Disease of Heart.
73
6 8 Consumption.
15 Emma C. Hudson,
18 7 13 Consumption.
20 Lizzie Shipman,
22 11 19 Disease of Heart.
27 Minnie W. Russell,
6 4 Cholera Infantum.
MARRIAGES RECORDED IN WEST BRIDGEWATER IN THE YEAR 1867.
DATE.
BRIDEGROOM.
BRIDE.
Jan.
27
Daniel Duggan.
Joanna Sullivan,
March 9
William H. Simmons,
Martha C. Cole,
June
16
Lewis Howard,
Experience T. Jacobs,
16
Edward S. Jacobs,
Clara A. Jacobs,
23
Edgar Billings,
Nancy F. Packard,
Sept.
22
William Winship,
Mary Ann French,
Nov.
27
Charles R. Curtis,
Lemira A. Howard,
28
David F. White,
Carrie E. Fisher,
Dec.
1
George W. Allen,
Mary L. Howard.
Notice of the intentions of Marriage between the following persons has been recorded, but no certificate of any marriage between them has been returned to this town.
DATE.
NAMES.
Jan. 19
Thomas Joice and Margaret Murphy.
March 31
Frank Alger and Ellen Hathaway.
May
22
Edward K. French and Fanny M. Cleverly.
June
3
George F. Hayward and Georgianna Bates.
Nov.
19
Lucius F. Alden and Alice W. Harlow.
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William G. Field and Dorcas A. Dunbar.
Dec.
19
William B. Ames and Annie C. Maxfield.
3000122160
OWO-
33 Consumption.
11 Albert F. Turner,
1 10 0 Congestion of Brain.
30 11 23 Diabetes.
Oct. 6 Alice W. Copeland,
Nov. 20 Caroline Hersey,
Dec. 9 George Snow,
85 2 4 ()ld Age.
The number of Births recorded in this town during the year 1867, is forty-two.
AUSTIN PACKARD, Town Clerk.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF
WEST BRIDGEWATER,
FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR ENDING
MARCH 1, 1868.
-
Board of School Committee for the School Year commencing
MARCH 1, 1867.
FRANCIS E. HOWARD, JOSEPH KINGMAN, C. W. RICHARDS.
FOR ONE YEAR : FOR TWO YEARS : JONATHAN C. KEITH, SIMEON J. DUNBAR, BRADFORD PACKARD.
FOR THREE YEARS :
CYRUS ALGER, LEWIS G. HOWARD, DAVIS COPELAND.
ORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD.
JOSEPH KINGMAN, Chairman.
SIMEON J. DUNBAR, Secretary.
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LOCAL COMMITTEES.
The two Cochesett Schools, Cyrus Alger.
The two Center Schools and the South School, Francis E. Howard and Bradford Packard.
North Center, Davis Copeland.
North, Jonathan C. Keith.
Jerusalem, Lewis G. Howard.
East, Joseph Kingman.
By authority conferred by a vote of the town, the Committee re-elected Simeon J. Dunbar Superintendent of the schools for the year.
Under the direction and control of the Committee, in confor- mity with the requirements of law, and in compliance with duty, I assumed and have fulfilled the responsibilities incumbent upon me, and herewith for the fourth time present a report of the School Committee.
CENTRE SCHOOL.
The scholars formerly of Districts No. 4 and 7, except those who attend at the South school, were united in the Centre school at the commencement of the summer term, and divided into Pri- mary and Grammar departments. The whole number of schol- ars in both departments, in summer 68, in winter 84, - amply enough for two departments.
Although this school assumes the name of a graded one, yet owing to the great variety of classes, different degrees of attain- ment, and its recent formation, it is not in that state of grada- tion which secures the benefits of the graded system as generally intended.
GRAMMAR DEPARTMENT.
Summer, -Teacher, Miss Flora C. Swift, of Bridgewater.
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This being Miss Swift's first term of teaching we did not de- rive that advantage of previous experience which lends much to- wards success ; yet she showed many good methods and designs in her labors. The discipline was partially secured by a system of checking for lessons and deportment ; it was mild and created a mutual pleasantness between teacher and pupils, but not that degree of quietness and promptness which would have been bet- ter. The methods of instruction and forms of explanation were intended to secure good results, yet thorough progress in some cases was not so distinctly marked as it would have been with a firmer discipline and more definiteness in the work of the school.
Winter. - Teacher, Miss S. Lizzie Howard, of Easton.
The composition of this school, more especially on the boys' side, presents so much of this independent precocity, or perhaps we might say premature manliness, or a kind of individual, sel- fish idea of privilege and unrestrained freedom - manifested in a way very unpleasant to the teacher and unfavorable to the well- being of the school - that it demands the decided influence of a good male teacher to guarantee implicit obedience, and command proper respect to the rightful authority of the school; and such a teacher should be possessed, not only with the requisite author- ity and right disposition and proper motive to .govern well, but should show to the pupils in his very word and action the posi- tiveness of his intention and reasonableness of his request; also the undoubted ability to compel, if need be, a prompt and faith- ful compliance with all just requirements pertaining to the indi- vidual welfare of the pupils or the general success of the school. It may seem that these remarks are tending towards extreme reg- ulations, and perhaps excessive corporeal punishment, but that is not the intention. Without extending them at present, we will defer this subject, and perhaps resume it in our concluding remarks.
This school is quite large and contains many advanced schol-
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ars. As is implied from the preceding remarks, the conduct on one side of the house was not what it should have been, but still we should do great injustice to the general character of the school if we did not say that the willing obedience and faithful industry of the older girls did much by active co-operation with the teacher towards the success of the school. With these con- ditions, the general deportment and studiousness were not of a high order.
The teacher had decidedly good qualifications, and her meth- ods of teaching, in mathematics especially, were clear, logical, and thorough, and in this study she had many good classes ; es- pecially the first class in arithmetic, which is the best class in this branch in town. The reading and other studies were not of so high a character, but the general proficiency of the school was better than the discipline. The entire term the teacher la- bored with high endeavors and patient efforts for the welfare of her pupils, and with the unpleasant circumstances connected with the discipline, deserves credit for the success with which she closed her labors.
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
Summer. - Teacher, Miss Emily C. Crafts.
This department occupies the school-house formerly of Dis- trict No. 4, which has been moved near the Grammar depart- ment in the Union house. The discipline was excellent. It was always remarkably quiet, and there was an entire unanimity of action, and prompt obedience. It is very seldom that we find a school too strict in discipline, but for a school of this grade we think were too many strict regulations, and somewhat unrea- sonable requirements which were not necessary to produce good deportment with so young scholars. Among the many excellent points of this school, a less rigid and more mild, but not less positive method of governing would have greatly increased the pleasant influence and cheerful feeling among the children, and
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also added to the usefulness of the school. The exactness as seen in discipline was manifested throughout the work of the school, and in certain cases may have been too sharp - expect- ing too much - for so young minds, but still in others it wrought some of the best results.
The method of teaching reading, and the result produced in this line, was superior in many respects. No scholars in our schools are so careful of punctuation, or distinct in articulation.
One of the chief points of instruction was the . correct use of language, and the pupils spoke pieces and recited poetry with much profit.
Winter. - Teacher, Miss Nellie Forman, of this town.
This was Miss Forman's first term in a school of this kind, although she had received some professional education in the Normal school in the town of Normal, Illinois, from which she graduated. She had also taught in the model school connected with that institution. The experience received in that training school certainly had its marked effect upon her teaching, for she seemed to commence in the work of the school with a full knowl- edge of the duty before her, and apparently like an experienced hand.
The discipline was mild, positive, and uniform, and secured cheerful obedience and most pleasant relations in the work of the school. Atwater's school government - a plan of merits on the banking system - was used with much success. Certain privileges as rewards for good lessons and conduct were allowed to deserving pupils : as drawing and printing words on the board. Printing and writing words and spelling lessons upon the black- board was a regular and daily exercise with the school, and many times could be seen columns of neatly printed words with the pupils' names printed under them, and a number placed over them by the teacher, indicating the rank of the lesson or the number missed.
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Singing, and speaking pieces were taught with pleasing and useful results. The instruction was expedient and thorough, and directed towards some definite purpose and end, and the real usefulness of the school was highly satisfactory.
COCHESETT SCHOOLS.
Teachers - Summer and Winter-Grammar Department, Mr. Charles H. Dunbar of this town : Primary Department, Miss Kate H. Brett, of South Easton.
No lengthy remarks are necessary to give the known condi- tion and continued prosperity of these schools. Nothing can re- port more favorably to their success than the fact that the teach- ers have been re-employed, with increased compensation, for sev- eral terms.
In the Grammar department Mr. Dunbar has been steadily and decidedly progressing. His discipline has been very good, commanding respect and prompt compliance with the regulations of the school, and his oversight in the care of the building shows a smaller amount of damage than has occurred for some time. The work of the school for the year, like that of the previous one, has been one of marked success.
Miss Brett has continued for the third year in her quiet and pleasant way to perform the duties of a faithful teacher in her school. Atwater's merits were used with success. The school was governed with much mildness, and the discipline was gene- rally favorable to success : still in some respects it was not as perfect as some. The real studiousness and improvement of the school was of a little more than the ordinary character.
NORTH CENTRE.
Summer. - Teacher, Miss M. Katie Hall, of Cohasset.
The discipline and general deportment were very good, secur-
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ed by a willing and prompt obedience and co-operation of the pupils, with the cheerful influence and positive requirements of the teacher. The industry and progress of the school corres- ponded with the deportment.
Besides the regular exercises of the school, compositions were written and pieces spoken, and other useful exercises inter- spersed.
The examination was very good and showed thorough pro- gress and a profitable term.
Winter. - Teacher, Miss Lucy L. Holden, of Concord, N. H .. a graduate of Salem Normal school.
Remarks of the summer term are applicable to this. The teacher brought with her a full acquaintance with her work, and with the willing co-operative efforts of the pupils, and acquies- ence, if not co-operation of parents, taught a good school. Compositions, select reading and speaking were introduced with interest and profit.
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