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JAMES HOWARD, For the Directors of the Library.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
The annual report of the school committee of the town of West Bridgewater for the school year of 1881-82 is hereby respectfully submitted.
ORGANIZATION.
Wm. A. Linehan, Wm. H. Jennings, Terms expire 1882.
Lucius Dunbar, Clinton P. Howard,
Terms expire 1883.
Joseph E. Ryder, Albert Copeland, Terms expire 1884.
The board organized for the year by the choice of Lucius Dunbar chairman, and Albert Copeland secretary. The schools were assigned to the members of the committee as follows :
North and North Center to Mr. Copeland.
East to Mr. Ryder.
South to Mr. Howard.
Center to Mr. Dunbar.
Cochesett to Mr. Jennings.
Jerusalem to Mr. Linehan.
Chose J. A. Shores superintendent of schools.
The following sub-committees were appointed : On repairs, Messrs. Jennings, Howard, and Copeland ; on examination of teachers, the superintendent and Messrs. Jennings and Cope land.
At the annual town meeting the subject of establishing a
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school of higher grade for the instruction of the more advanced scholars in town was discussed, and was finally disposed of by referring the subject to the committee. The subject was discussed by the committee, and on motion of W. H. Jennings, voted to establish a High School class in connection with the Center Grammar School. At this point it was voted to adjourn for two weeks. At the adjourned meeting the com- mittee voted to proceed to form a class in accordance with the previous vote. Chose the gentlemen previously chosen as committee to examine teachers to be committee to examine candidates for admission to the class. Chose Messrs. How- ard and Copeland a committee to confer with Mr. Dunbar as to the employment of a teacher for the High School class.
CONDITION OF THE SCHOOLS.
The Jerusalem, Cochesett Primary, Center Grammar, South and North Center schools have for the entire year been taught by teachers who had previous experience in those schools. In the Cochesett Grammar a vacancy was caused by the res- ignation of Mr. Rackcliffe; also a vacancy in the North by the resignation of Miss Wyman; and in the Center Primary and East the committee thought a change of teachers desira- ble. It is the opinion of the committee that the new teachers who have entered the field have proved themselves eminently qualified for the positions which they have assumed. For a more particular and minute report of the work performed and the working condition of the schools we refer you to report of the superintendent which accompanies this report.
SCHOOL VISITATION.
The committee again invite the attention of parents, guar- dians, and those who have the charge of children to this sub- ject. It would astonish most persons to look over the regis- ters and see how few of those who should be most interested visit the school-rooms. Their visits are "like angels' visits,
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few and far between." There are many good reasons why this should not be so. The school committee are required by law to report annually to the town the condition of the public schools. They form their opinions of the teaching in the several schools by its apparent results ; they look for system, order, life; for progress from time to time in the studies, and where these are found, report success. All this all intelligent visitors may do and learn for themselves if the reports of the committee are correct. Another reason why school visitation should be a more common event is its influence on both teachers and pupils. School children do not appreciate their opportunities and have but little idea of their cost, but inevi- tably judge of their value by the seeming importance their parents attach to them. That part of the teacher's work which often forces itself upon his mind is its endless iteration, and he is glad of any event that reminds him that there is an interest in his work and in the welfare of his pupils outside the school-house walls. The advent of visitors is such an event.
HIGH SCHOOL CLASS.
The establishing of this the committee deemed called for by the expression of interest manifested in the subject and the subsequent action of the town. Of course the committee have felt that their work in this direction was experimental, but the results obtained have exceeded their expectations. Our work has been the subject of many unjust criticisms. We have no apologies to make for our course in this matter, feeling that we have been governed by no personal motives, but have conscientiously acted for the best interests of the town and community. Of course the inhabitants of the town . have not forgotten the munificent bequest made by the late B. B. Howard for the benefit, as he declares in his will, of his native town in an educational way, and all know, too, how much the town has as yet been benefited by the fruits of said bequest. In conversation between some members of the board of school committee and some members of the board of
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trustees of the Howard funds, the trustees have manifested a deep interest in the success of the High School class, and expressed a hope that the trustees at their next meeting might contribute of the funds in their care to sustain this class or assume its entire support. The trustees are soon to have a meeting, and their course in the matter may be decided upon.
CONDITION OF SCHOOL PROPERTY.
During the year the largest item of expense for repairs on school property has been the repairs on the North Center school-house, which has been new plastered, new floored in part, new seated, new blackboards and a new ventilating apparatus supplied, and made one of the most pleasant and attractive school-rooms in town. The repairs on the other school property have been such as are of constant occurrence. For the next year the Cochesett house must be thoroughly repaired at an estimated expense of at least $175 if no internal alterations are made. The South houses need to be painted, and at Jerusalem a well and pump is needed, which, with the constantly occurring minor repairs which must be made, will necessitate a larger appropriation for school repairs and fur- nishings.
FINANCIAL REPORT.
Town grant, March, 1881 $3,000.00
Dividend of Mass. School fund 231.94
Received of East Bridgewater for tuition 10.03
Estimated income from dog tax . 210.00
Drawn from money in treasury for H. S. C. 50.00
Overdrawn 23.76
$3,525.73
Paid for teachers' wages . $2,888.50
on account of High School class 260.00
" for fuel . 216.80
" " care of school-houses · 50.10
East Bridgewater for tuition . · 110.33 $3,525.73
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Town grant for repairs and furnishings
$350.00
Paid for repairs and furnishing Overdrawn
372.68
$22.68
We recommend that the town raise for repairs and furnish- ings $425. That they raise for the support of schools $3,000, and if in their wisdom they continue the High School class in its present form, the additional sum of $300 and the divi- dend of the dog tax. There were on the first day of May last 322 scholars in town. The terms of service to which Messrs. Jennings and Linehan were elected expire with the present school year. Therefore, at the next meeting of the town, there must be elected two members of the board of school committee for three years.
CLINTON P. HOWARD, LUCIUS DUNBAR, J. E. RYDER, WM. A. LINEHAN,
ALBERT COPELAND, School Committee.
WEST BRIDGEWATER, February 1, 1882.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT.
To the School Committee.
GENTLEMEN : In assuming the supervision of the public schools, my first object was to become acquainted with the condition and wants of each school and the peculiarities of the teachers, so that I could not only determine more accu- rately the quantity and quality of the work done, but also better give the aid each teacher needed.
I cannot compare the progress of the schools with that of previous years, but they will bear a favorable comparison with those of other towns.
The schools are in a prosperous condition and satisfactory results have been secured. While there is great diversity of methods among the teachers, their work has been marked by patient, painstaking, and intelligent efforts. For the most part they have been efficient and successful in maintaining discipline and good order, and many of them possess the happy faculty of so relieving the tedium of toil and breaking up the monotony of school-life and inspiring the pupils with a love of study, that with strict order, decorum and quiet in the school-room there is also a buoyancy and cheerfulness of spirit that are pleasing to behold, and are promising of good results.
Much of the prosperity of the schools is due to the perma- nency of the teachers. A change of teachers is sometimes necessary and beneficial, but it should not be made for slight causes. Very frequently a teacher for some trivial thing is turned away, and one employed with other but greater
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faults. Besides, much valuable time is lost while the teacher is learning the characters and wants of the pupils, and they become accustomed to the methods of the new teacher.
The High School class and Center Grammar School have made good progress. I realized the difficulties of combining the two schools, but there has been far less friction and com- plaint than I anticipated. The experiment of combining the two schools has been successful, but both would be benefited by a separation. The instruction has been thorough, system- atic, and progressive. The classes have all done well, but those in Latin, Algebra, Geometry, and a younger class in Arithmetic and English Grammar have given me much pleas- ure in listening to their recitations. There are in the lower schools enough pupils well qualified to form another class. These can be better and with more economy taught all together than in their separate schools. Besides, the teachers of the grammar and mixed schools will have all they can do well to take care of the younger classes.
In the grammar department at Cochesett, the progress of the school was interrupted by a change of teachers, but you were fortunate in securing a man not only well qualified by education, but very enthusiastic and with a great love of his work. So absorbed was he in teaching that I was afraid the discipline of the school would suffer, but at each of my visits this term the order has been excellent.
The primary schools appear well. The Cochesett and South have been so long under the same teachers that their condition is well known. The change in the Center Grammar School retained the pupils in the primary and made it more like the mixed schools. It has been large, and hard to man- age, but has performed much good work, and the teacher merits much praise for her patience, perseverance, and suc- cess under difficulties.
The South Grammar School has made steady progress during the year. It has been injured by absences and tardiness, but the energy of the teacher has in a measure remedied these evils.
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The regular advance of the North was scarcely interrupted by the change of teachers. Mrs. Swift quickly acquired a knowledge of the scholars and made them so conform to her wishes that they seem to govern themselves. This is the highest type of school government - when the authority is out of sight and every one apparently does as he pleases.
The North Center deserves equal praise for progress in studies and exact methods of instruction. The school excels in English grammar.
The Jerusalem school is so small that it must be difficult to sustain any interest in the classes and preserve regular discipline. The teacher has been successful not only in pre- serving strict order, but in awakening interest in the classes. The school would be benefited if it could be joined with the Cochesett or some other school.
The East school has been well instructed. The progress of the classes, if measured by pages of text-book, has not been so much as in some of the other schools, but the efforts of the teacher have been to make the pupils thorough and self-reliant. They seem to understand all they have been over, and have acquired much general information.
More uniformity and better results can be obtained by a prescribed course of study and by meetings of the teachers for mutual aid and instruction.
A course of study for primary and grammar schools has been prepared by a committee appointed by the County Con- vention of School Officers and the Teachers' Association. It may not be strictly adapted to our schools, but it is worthy of attention, as it has been prepared by the best educators of the county. Perhaps no course can be rigidly followed, but you can place before all of the teachers what studies you wish to have taught and in what order. It will concentrate the ener- gies of the teachers by giving them definite ends to be ob- tained, and in a measure remedy the present desultory methods of teaching.
Permit me to call your attention to the ventilation of the school-rooms. Leaving out the health of the pupils, good air
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is necessary for the government of the school, for bad air will make any school restless and disorderly. I have several times found the teachers trying in vain to reduce their schools to order when a supply of fresh air would accomplish more than all their efforts.
The introduction of Bradbury's Eaton's small arithmetics in place of several other books has not only made the text-books uniform in all the schools, but has worked well. It is concise, but clear. It wastes no time on useless questions, and leaves much of the application and illustration of principles to the oral instruction of the teacher.
Respectfully yours, J. A. SHORES, Superintendent of Schools.
ROLL OF HONOR.
THIS list contains the names of those pupils who have been neither absent nor tardy during an entire term, with the num- ber of terms of perfect attendance opposite each name.
Cochesett Grammar.
Frank P. Dorgan
.
2
May E. Jennings
.
I
Iva N. Adams
I Ethel Vosmus
.
I
Harry A. Marshall
I Archie M. Dick .
I
Belle B. Alger ·
·
I Lana D. Shaw
I
Mattie E. Godfrey
.
I
Minnie Gould
.
I
Blanche A. Jennings
·
I
Cochesett Primary.
Herbert A. Lothrop
2 Katie G. Dewyer
I
Lionel Adams
2 May F. Ripley
.
I
Calvin Godfrey
2 Selista E. Godfrey
.
I
Hattie J. Dewyer
I John S. Pittsley .
·
I
Lottie M. Pittsley .
·
2 Cyrus A. Godfrey
· I
Bessie Godfrey .
·
I
Charles A. Vosmus
.
I
Center Grammar.
Charles A. Lothrop
I Bertie S. Packard
.
I
Oscar B. Leonard .
I Annie Barrell I
Bertha Leonard .
.
·
.
I
.
.
.
.
·
.
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Center Primary.
Helen F. Bartlett
·
I Charles M. Logue
·
I
Charles Bradford .
I William Lothrop .
I
George L. Burke
I Edward Miller ·
I
George Conner
I Fannie R. Pratt .
I
Charles Conner
I Charles Reeves .
I
Henry Bartlett
3 Aurelia E. Ripley
2
Ralph D. Forbes
I
Edna F. Wilber
2
Ellis Le Lacheur
.
I
South Primary.
Willie Luddy
2
Clara Stanley
I
Patrick Kent
.
2
Edith Stanley
I
John Kent .
I
East.
George Colwell .
I
Etta Pratt
Thomas Donahoe
I Austin I. Pratt
Alice Eddy .
2 George F. Ryder
Jennie F. Johnson
I Nellie Sullivan
Florence F. Keene
I Alice Tower
I
Laura Keene
I William Tower
I
Jerusalem.
Willie McCann
Aggie Linehan .
·
2
I
Susie J. Langley .
·
I
North.
Elmer Hayward .
3 Lizzie Hayward . · 3
George Hayward
2 Hattie Turner
3
Elliot Keith
2 Grace M. Perkins
3 Marion McDonald
·
2 Nellie L Millet . 2
Edith Millet
.
.
2 Roxie J. Howard
.
I
HHHH I I I I
.
2 Frankie Hayward Jessie W. Deane . ·
I
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North Center.
Nellie Godfrey
I
Harry P. Snow
.
2
Winnie Hiatt
I
Bertie C. Snow . .
I
Justin Hutchinson
2 Arthur D. Copeland
I
Ernest Hutchinson
2
Jennie E. Young .
I
Bertie Hutchinson
I
Charles Kinney .
I
Charles Neiss
I
Henry C. Kinney
.
I
Thomas Neiss
I
Horace E. Toothaker . .
I
High School Class.
George W. Alger .
· I
Clara B. Leach
.
I
Frank Alger
2 Mary D. Ames
2
Fred Alger .
I Clarence Atwell .
·
3
Eva M. Cole
Eliza Leonard I
I
Arthur W. Pratt .
I
Lida W. Copeland
·
.
I
Ada W. Leach
I
.
Oliver Neiss
.
I
.
.
·
Total, 101. Of this number 73 per cent. have been perfect for one term, 22 per cent. for two terms, and 6 per cent. for three terms.
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Table of Statistics.
SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS.
Length of School
in months.
Wages of Teachers
per month.
Average number of
Average attend-
ance.
Percentage of at- tendance.
COCHESETT GRAMMAR.
John J. Rackliffe
Summer
27
$44.00
26
23
.88
Schurz
Fall
44.00
27
26
.96
Schurz
Winter
3
44.00
23
2I
.91
COCHESETT PRIMARY.
Summer
2₺
34.00
45
40
.89
Irene S. Wood
Fall .
23
34.00
39
35
.89
Winter
3
34.00
40 .
39
.97}
CENTER GRAMMAR.
Summer
23
40.00
I6
15
.97
Ralph Barker . .
Fall
2₺
40.00
II
9
.82
Winter
3
40.00
II
9
.82
CENTER PRIMARY.
Summer
2}
34.00
3I
27
.87
Edith Snell
Fall .
27
34.00
37
34
.91
Winter
3
34.00
34
33
.97
SOUTH INTERMEDIATE.
Summer
2₺
36.00
26
23
.88
M. A. Dewyer
Fall .
3
36.00
24
20
.83
Winter
2₺
36.00
22
18
.77
SOUTH PRIMARY.
Summer
2}
34.00
35
30
.85
Wealthy Holmes ·
Fall .
3
34.00
41
37
.90
Winter
34.00
38
34
.88
NORTH CENTER.
Summer
2₺
34.00
23
23
100
L. M. Toothaker
Fall .
2₺
34.00
25
2I
.84
Winter
3
34.00
25
23
.92
NORTH.
M. B. Wyman .
Summer
2₺
36.00
23
2I
.91
L. M. Swift
Fall .
2₺
34.00
25
23
.92
L. M. Swift
Winter
3
34.00
24
20
.83
EAST.
1 Summer
H. E. Wentworth
Fall .
2}
36.00
37
34
.91
Winter
3
36.00
34
32
.92
JERUSALEM.
Summer
2₺
34.00
I2
IO
.80
Abbie A. Frawley
Fall
Winter .
3
34.00
IO
9
.90
HIGH SCHOOL CLASS.
Summer
3
8.50
22
2I
.95
Ralph Barker
Fall .
3¢
50.50
23
21
.91
Winter .
34
51.40
20
19
.95
36.00
32
27
.84
34.00
IO
9
.90
pupils.
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF WEST BRIDGEWATER,
FOR TIIE
YEAR ENDING JANUARY 1ST, 1883.
WEST FloLos PUBLIC LAARANY
BROCKTON: GAZETTE STEAM-PRINTING HOUSE. 1883.
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF WEST BRIDGEWATER,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING JANUARY 1ST, 1883.
BROCKTON: GAZETTE STEAM-PRINTING HOUSE, 1883.
TOWN OFFICERS.
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Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor. HENRY COPELAND. MOLBRY A. RIPLEY. SAMUEL H. HOWARD.
Town Clerk. JAMES HOWARD.
Collector and Treasurer. GEORGE M. PRATT.
School Committee. J. A. SHORES, Superintendent.
LUCIUS DUNBAR, Chairman.
ALBERT COPELAND, Secretary.
MARCUS F. DELANO. CLINTON P. HOWARD.
JOSEPH E. RYDER. WILLIAM A. LINEHAN.
Surveyors of Highways. EDWARD TISDALE. DAVIS COPELAND. JOHN L. HAYWARD.
Library Committee.
FRANCIS E. HOWARD. JAMES HOWARD. MRS. M. K. CROSBY. MRS. HENRY COPELAND.
CHARLES R. PACKARD. MRS. EDWARD TISDALE.
Constables. LUCIUS DUNBAR. ELI WHEELER. WILLIAM A. LINEHAN.
Auditors. HEMAN COPELAND. SAMUEL N. HOWARD.
BENJAMIN B. HOWARD.
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REPORT OF THE ASSESSORS.
VALUATION
As Assessed May 1, 1882.
Value of real estate,
-717,531 00
.. personal property. 153,206 00
Total,
$870,737 00
ASSESSMENTS.
State tax.
$1.040 00
County tax,
1,029 48
Town grant.
9,250 00
Overlaying on taxes,
31 36
Total tax,
$11,340 84
Rate of tax, $12.00 per $1.000. Poll tax, $2.00.
Number of polls,
451
..
dwelling-houses taxed.
358
.. acres of land.
9.816
.. horses,
316
.. COWS.
494
.. sheep,
16
APPROPRIATIONS.
For support of schools. $3,000 00
repairs on school property.
400 00
high school,
500 00
support of poor,
1,300 00
repairing roads.
2,500 00
new roads,
200 00
town officers.
700 00
incidentals. 500 00
public lectures.
100 00
old cemeteries.
50 00
$9.250 00
TOWN PROPERTY.
Value of town farm, $4,000 00
personal property. 2.012 22
nine school-houses. 11,700 00
town library, 2.500 00
HENRY COPELAND. Selectmen MOLBRY A. RIPLEY, and
SAMUEL H. HOWARD, Assessors.
Report of the Overseers of the Poor.
INVENTORY OF ALMSHOUSE. FEB. 1. 1883.
2 oxen.
$160 00
7 cows, 300 00
1 horse,
140 00
4 swine,
50 00
82 fowls,
65 00
10 tons English hay.
200 00
10 tons meadow hay.
80 00
1 ton rye straw,
15 00
1 ton corn fodder.
5 00
1 ton shorts,
23 00
meal.
3 00
corn and oats.
1 00
6 bushels beans.
18 00
11 rye.
7 70
30 66 corll,
30 00
turnips and carrots,
10 00
60 bushels potatoes.
55 00
20 mangolds and beets, cabbages and onions.
5 00
143 lbs. ham,
20 00
250 lbs. pork,
25 00
50 lbs. beef.
5 00
14 lbs. butter.
4 10
55 lbs. lard,
7 70
Amount carried forward,
$1.239 50
10 00
Amount brought forward. salt.
$1,239 50 50
crackers, 1 25
flour.
11 25
rye meal,
90
soap,
1 00
pickles,
3 00
grass seed,
2 50
groceries and fish,
4 50
express wagon,
35 00
2 tip carts.
80 00
2 hay carts,
40 00
1 cart harness,
10 00
2 other harnesses,
20 00
1 pung,
12 00
robes and blankets,
4 00
4 meat barrels, 4 00
6 00
słed and drag, wheelbarrow,
5 00
2 ox yokes,
5 00
mowing machine, rake and harrow,
100 00
farming tools,
50 00
Į ton coal,
4 00
boards,
45 00
shingles,
2 50
manure and ashes,
100 00
5 stoves, 40 00
1 bureau. 15 chairs, 4 tables and 7 bedsteads,
42 00.
tin ware,
15 00
crockery and stoneware,
15 00
glassware, lantern and lamps,
7 00
knives, forks and spoons.
3 00 -
2 churns,
5 00
3 butter trays and stamps,
7 00
3 tubs and clothes wringer,
7 50
Amount carried forward, 1,928 40
7
Amount brought forward bed and bedding, linen and towels, 17 yds. cotton cloth, 9 window screens, steelyards,
$1,928 40
60 00
6 00
2 00
4 50
1 32
$2,002 22
Inventory for 1882. $1,723 60
RECEIPTS OF ALMSHOUSE.
James C. Leighton, as Warden, from February, 1882, to February, 1883:
Received for milk,
$308 30
butter,
109 30
eggs,
83 81
poultry,
55 09
vegetables,
33 38
hogs,
48 70
calves,
22 88
pigs,
42 50
hay,
51 93
horse,
28 00
oxen,
365 00
coWS,
100 00
old wheels,
15 00
wood,
42 75
premium on butter, etc ..
8 50
work off farm.
110 65
board,
28 00
boards,
227 22
Amount carried forward,
$1,681 01
8
Amount brought forward, $1,681 01 Received for entertaining tramps, 8 50 attending with hearse, 22 00 Increase in inventory, 278 62
$1,990 13
Of the above, there is due the house, 279 14
EXPENDITURES OF ALMSHOUSE.
Paid for groceries,
$278 92
flour,
95 00
grain,
445 96
meat,
127 53
fish,
20 88
crackers,
7 70
clothing and bedding,
101 36
boots and shoes,
28 80
household utensils,
13 50
labor,
153 30
black-smithing,
32 23
farming tools,
15 45
stock, two yokes oxen,
288 00
1 hog,
16 00
grass and garden seeds,
16 11
fertilizers,
17 61
repairs on wagon,
19 25
sawing lumber,
7 04
soap,
8 00
coal,
4 00
salt,
4 00
pung,
17 50
use of stock,
6 00
Amount carried forward,
$1,724 14
9
Amount brought forward, Paid for butchering. 8 75
$1,724 14
2 cows,
87 00
1 cow,
56 00
1 horse,
150 00
bill to Howard & Caldwell.
14 00
James C. Leighton's salary for one year, 300 00
cash drawn from treasury for
warden's use on farm, 322 80
Total expenditures during year,
$2,662 69
Total receipts during year,
1,990 13
Total expense of poor in house.
672 56
Total expense of poor out of almshouse,
722 41
Total expense of poor,
$1,394 97
NAMES OF PERSONS SUPPORTED IN THE ALMSHOUSE DURING THE YEAR 1882.
Galen Howard, age 75,
52 weeks.
Michael Ryan, " 35, 52 66
Henry Packard, 66 16,
442
Fred Packard, 10, 52 66
Esrom Morse. 66
9,
52
Mary A. Morse, 6,
52 6.
Chloe Field, 6
84,
17 ..
Albert Staples, 40,
52
Mrs. Fadden, " 64, 2
60
Discharged during the year, 1.
Died during the year, 1.
Average number during the year, 711.
Average cost per week, 1.79.44 125 Number of Tramps, 17.
2
10
EXPENSE OF POOR OUT OF THE HOUSE.
Help to Warren Corbet, $32 00
" Mrs. Harriet Mansfield, care and physician, 86 11
·· Mrs. Jemima Howard, board, 161 00
" John Reeves, physician, 8 00
Frank Fadden, Taunton Lunatic Hospital, 76 27
Stranger, clothing and care, 3 50
Fred Leonard, supplies and physician, 101 80
Joseph Morse, supplies, 7 50
66 William Durgan, groceries and doctor's bill, 73 70
" T. Fisher, supplies, 16 00
" William Smith, supplies, 37 00
" Geo. Frye, groceries, coal and doctor's bill, 52 28
66 Martha Conwall, wood and doctor's bill, 17 00
Poor children, for school books, 10 10
Paid Dr. J. C. Swan for medical attendance. 13 00
Dr. Delano, 66 ..
5 15
" Elihu Leonard, for digging grave. 2 00
" Shaw & Rice, for supplies. 20 00
Total paid, $722 41
Due from Stoughton for W. Corbet, $32 00
66 Braintree for Mrs. H. Mansfield, 86 11
Bridgewater for M. Conwall, 17 00
6. Wareham for Geo. Frye, 52 28
66 State for William Durgan, 73 70
Received of Milo Howard, 40 00
Total Receipts, - $301 09
HENRY COPELAND,
MOLBRY A. RIPLEY,
Poor.
Overseers of the SAMUEL H. HOWARD,
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE ROADS.
Appropriation for roads and bridges, $2,500 00
Amount expended, 2,615 00
Appropriation for new roads, 200 00
Amount expended, 125 00
For a more extended account of the condition of the roads, we refer you to the report of the road commissioners.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF SCHOOLS.
Appropriation for 1882, $3,000 00
Appropriation for high school, 500 60
State school fund, 232 12
Subscription, 41 50- 3773 63
Amount expended.
4018 64
Appropriation for school repairs, 400 00
Amount expended, 598 35
OLD CEMETERIES.
Appropriation, $50 00
Expenditures at Jerusalem and Pine Hill cem- eteries, 15 76
12
INCIDENTAL ACCOUNT.
A. T. Jones, printing reports, $78 00
F. E. Howard, town hall rent, 75 00
Timothy Dewyer, gravel, 18 32
Daniel Perkins, office rent,
18 00
S. A. Hayward, insurance,
50 00
David Paul, highway damage,
85 00
James C. Leighton, repairing hearse,
22 50
C. W. Copeland, gravel,
17 40
William B. Ames, posts,
7 30
Samuel D. Bartlett, tolling bell, etc.,
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