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Scholars will make more progress in penmanship by giving two-fifths of the time usually devoted to this exercise to drawing.
I believe in the judicious use of text books, and that pupils should begin early to study and to learn how to get knowledge from books, but the elements of most of the studies should be taught orally, and oral instruction should
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be a part of every recitation through the whole course. This not only gives interest to the recitation, but enables the teacher to make it of some practical value to the pupil.
True teaching gives ideas first, and then language to express them. It looks beyond words and seeks the thought, and then returns to words to express the thought. I have been much pleased with the efforts of some of the teachers to make the pupils understand the thought in their reading lessons, and to express it in a natural manner. Many pupils are reading in books far above their comprehension. They have become familiar with a lower reader, and need something new. The teacher puts them into a higher reader. They do not need more dfficult reading, but more of the same kind. Our school reading books do not give one-fifth of the amount that ought to be read before pupils advance to the next higher book. This want is supplied in many schools by collateral reading. Books and papers are now prepared for that purpose.
I would place the study of grammar late in the course, but the study of language must begin as soon as the pupil enters the school. This must be taught orally, and success will depend upon the skill and perseverance of the teacher. The efforts of the three primary teachers to have their pupils use correct language and to express their ideas in their own words, are worthy of commendation.
The course of study that you adopted last spring has been followed by the schools as far as practicable. It will need some changes to meet the higher standard of the Howard seminary.
Respectfully submitted,
J. A. SHORES, Supt. of Schools.
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Table of Statistics.
SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS.
Length of Schools
Wager of Teachers
per Month.
Average Number of
Average Attend-
Percentage of
Attendance.
Number who were
Neither Absent nor
Tardy.
COCHESETT GRAMMAR.
- Winter.
3
$44 00
26
E. Schurz,
Summer.
25
44 00
32 5
Fall.
44 00
25.33
25 25
.99 6
COCHESETT PRIMARY.
Winter.
3
34 00
40
39
.97.5
Irene S. Wood,
Summer. Fall.
21
34 00
28.33
22.5
79
.83
CENTRE GRAMMAR.
Ralph Barker.
·
Winter.
3
40 00
16
15
.97 .86 8
2
21
40 00
22
18 9
.85 9
CENTRE PRIMARY.
Winter.
3
34 00
84
33
.97
10
Edith Snell, . - Summer. Fall.
23
34 00
23.61
20.76
.88.3
7
SOUTH INTERMEDIATE.
Winter.
23
36 00
26
23
88
M. A. Dewyer,
Summer. Fall.
3
36 60
22.5
20.9
.92.8
SOUTH PRIMARY.
Winter.
23
34 00
38
34
.88
5
Wealthy Holmes,
Summer Fall.
22
34 00
34
31
.91
3
34 00
33
30
.90.9
4
NORTH CENTRE.
Winter.
3
34 00
25
23
.92
5
L, M. Toothaker, 3
Summer. Fall,
23
34 00
21
18
.90.9
34 00
20
16
.86
NORTH.
~
Winter.
33
34 00
24
20
.83
5
L. M. Swift,
Summer. Fall.
2
34 00
18
16.5
.91
9
EAST.
H. E. Wentworth,
Winter.
36 00
34
32
.92
9
A. A. Frawley,
Summer.
36 00
37.6
35
.93
8
Fall.
3
36 00
38.3
36
.94
5
JERUSALEM.
A. A. Frawley,
Winter. -
3
34 00
10
9
.90
I. M. Tinkham,
Summer.
25
34 00
13
10.75
.82.6
Fall.
34 00
11.5
9.8
.85
HIGH SCHOOL.
Winter.
31
68 00
22
21
.95
2
Ralph Barker,
Summer.
.
100 00
32
31
.96.8
8
Fall.
.
100 00
25 91
24 99
.95.6
.
.)1
40 00
21.6
18.75
George Gardner, .
Summer. Fall.
-
.
.
.
21
34 00
18
16
.89
5
36 00
25.9
23.623
.91.2
4
.
34 00
23
21.99
.95.6
3
-
-
-
.
23 29 5
.88 .93 8
34 00
23,33
23 68
in Months.
Pupils.
ance.
.
.
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ANNUAL REPORTS
-OF THI
TOWN OFFICERS
O1 THII
TOWN OF WEST BRIDGEWATER
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 1. 1884.
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BROCKTON: GAZETTE STEAM JOB PRINT, 188-1.
ANNUAL REPORTS
-OF THE-
TOWN OFFICERS
-OF THE-
TOWN OF WEST BRIDGEWATER
-FOR THE-
YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 1, 1884.
BROCKTON: GAZETTE STEAM JOB PRINT, 1884.
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. JAMES HOWARD.
School Committee.
J. A. SHORES, Superintendent.
LUCIUS DUNBAR, ALBERT COPELAND, Secretary.
MARCUS F. DELANO, EPIIRIAM T. SNELL, JOSEPH RYDER, WILLIAM A. LINEHAN.
Road Commissioners.
DAVIS COPELAND. EDWARD TISDALE, LINUS E. HAYWARD.
Library Committee.
FRANCIS E. HOWARD, JAMES HOWARD, MRS. M. K. CROSBY, MRS. HENRY COPELAND, MRS. EDWARD TISDALE.
CHARLES R. PACKARD,
Constables.
LUCIUS DUNBAR, WILLIAM A. LINEIIAN, CHARLES E. CHURCHILL.
Auditors.
CHARLES E. TISDALE, HORACE W. HOWARD, J. Q. HARTWELL.
REPORT OF THE! ASSESSORS,
VALUATION.
As Assessed May 1, 1883.
.
Value of real estate, $739,878 00
personal property, 133,948 00
Total,
$873,826 00
ASSESSMENTS.
State tax,
$840 00
County tax,
901 60
Town grant,
9.350 00
Overlaying on taxes,
248 31
Total tax,
$11,339 91
Rate of tax, $12.00 per $1,000. Poll tax, $2.00.
Number of polls,
427
dwelling-houses taxed,
359
acres of land,
9816
horses,
299
coWS,
467
sheep, 81
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APPROPRIATIONS.
For support of schools,
$3,000 00
repairs on school property,
600 00
repairs on highways,
2,500 00
new roads,
500 00
support of poor,
1,300 00
town officers.
700 00
incidentals,
600 00
public lectures,
100 00
old cemeteries,
50 00
$9,350 00
TOWN PROPERTY.
Value of town farm,
$4,100 00
personal property,
2,057 21
nine school-houses,
11,700 00
town library,
3,000 00
HENRY COPELAND, Selectmen
MOLBRY A. RIPLEY and
SAMUEL H. HOWARD, Assessors.
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF POOR.
INVENTORY OF ALMSHOUSE FEB. 1, 1884.
2 oxen,
$185 00
6 cows, 290 00
1 horse. 140 00
swine,
20 00
84 fowls,
65 00
12 tons of English hay,
240 00
10 tons meadow hay, 100 00
11 tons oat fodder,
22 00
1 ton corn fodder 6 00
shorts and meal,
4 20
30 bushels corn,
30 00
5
66 rye.
4 00
8
66 beans,
20 00
80
potatoes,
60 00
25
66 small potatoes,
6 25
beets and cabbage,
8 00
other vegetables.
6 00
100 pounds beef,
9 00
250 pork,
25 00
180
66 ham and shoulders,
22 50
75
lard,
9 00
Amount carried forward,
$1.271 95
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Amount brought forward,
$1,271 95
22 pounds butter,
7 26
crackers,
1 25
flour,
12 00
salt,
50
groceries,
5 00
soap,
8 00
5 meal barrels,
5 stoves,
45 00
1 bureau, 15 chairs, 4 tables and 7 bedsteads, 45 00
tin ware and pails, 10 00
25 00
glassware, etc.,
5 00
2 churns,
5 00
butter tray and woodenware,
20 00
beds and bedding,
70 00
table linen and towels,
10 00
steelyards,
1 25
2 tip carts,
70 00
2 hay carts.
40 00
express wagon,
25 00
1 pung,
15 00
1 cart harness,
10 00
2 light harnesses,
25 00
robes and blankets,
12 00
sled and drag,
8 00
wheelbarrow,
5 00
3 ox-yokes,
8 00
mowing machine, rake and harrow, 100 00
farming tools, 65 00
boards and shingles,
25 00
manure and ashes,
100 00
$2,057 21
Inventory for 1883,
2,002 22
2 00
coal,
5 00
crockery and stoneware.
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RECEIPTS OF ALMSHOUSE.
James C. Leighton, as Warden from February, 1883, to February, 1884.
Received for oxen and cows,
$450 00
milk and butter,
291 16
eggs,
95 70
poultry,
57 00
vegetables,
45 10
pigs,
9 00
calves,
2 75
pork,
62 05
hay,
41 30
labor off farm,
61 00
lumber,
190 00
entertaining tramps,
17 50
attending with hearse,
16 00
Cash on hand,
62 37
Due the house,
88 00
Increase in inventory,
54 99
$1,543 92
EXPENDITURES OF ALMSHOUSE.
Paid for oxen and cows,
$480 00
grain and groceries,
413 17
flour,
61 75
fish,
17 96
meat,
52 62
hardware,
17 64
soap,
10 36
snuff and tobacco,
7 40
fertilizers
64 80
grass and garden seeds,
23 60
blacksmithing,
29 78
Amount carried forward,
$1,179 08
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Amount brought forward, $1.179 08 4 75
butchering,
crockery, 6 70
shoes, 18 50
clothes and bedding,
73 45
papering,
8 60
labor on farm.
163 30
sundries,
6 84
mason work.
7 85
use of stock,
3 50
coal, 14 25
warden's salary.
300 00
Cash drawn from treasury, 150 00
Total expenditures during year,
$1,936 82
Total receipts during year, 1,543 92
Total expense of poor in house. $392 90
Total expense of poor out of house,
1,132 59
Total expense of poor.
$1,525 49
NAMES OF PERSONS SUPPORTED IN THE ALMSHOUSE DURING THE YEAR 1883.
Galen Howard, age 76,
52 weeks.
Michael Ryan, 36,
52
Albert Staples,
41,
52
Mrs. Fadden, 52,
52
Fred Packard, 11,
8
Esrom Morse, 9,
52
Mary A. Morse, “ 7,
52 66
Discharged during the year, 1.
Average number during the year, 6,23. Average cost per week. $1.2225. Number of tramps, 34.
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EXPENSE OF POOR OUT OF THE HOUSE.
Aid to Fred Leonard, supplies and physician, $131 75
George Randall,
60 00
Mrs. Jemima Howard,
201 25
Robert Connors, supplies,
64 62
Mrs. Allen,
4 00
McDonald family, "
11 83
W. A. Dean's family, "
11 50
John Reeves, physician,
2 00
Matilda Jacobs,
1 63
George M. Fryes, supplies and physician,
190 48
William Durgan, ..
109 50
Mrs. Richardson, coal,
7 00
George Burnham, supplies and physician,
8 55
Martha Conwall, .. 6.
35 94
Poor Children, for books and clothing,
25 25
Paid to City of Taunton, for Joseph Morse and Harvey families, 72 87
Taunton lunatic hospital,
129 67
Shaw & Rice. 24 25
Dr. J. C. Swan,
7 00
Mrs. Levi Packard,
33 50
Total Paid, $1,132 59
Due from Wareham for George M. Fryes, 242 28
State for William Durgan,
183 20
Town of Bridgewater for M. Conwall, 35 94
Braintree for Mrs. Mansfield, 86 11
City of New Bedford for George Burnham, 8 55
Total Receipts, $556 08
HENRY COPELAND,
MOLBRY A. RIPLEY,
Overseers of the Poor.
SAMUEL H. HOWARD,
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REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
INCIDENTAL ACCOUNT.
William H. Jennings as Justice of the Peace and filling blanks,
$10 18
Samuel Bartlett, tolling bell.
6 00
Daniel Perkins, for office rent,
18 00
George M. Pratt, paid for printing,
1 25
Eli Wheeler,
1 30
George T. Shaw, tolling bell,
2 00
James Howard, soldiers' monument,
4 50
M. A. Ripley,
4 25
W. H. Tobey,
6 00
A. T. Jones. printing,
72 50
Jane Packard, for meadow,
60 00
Samuel H. Howard, fires,
16-50
James Howard, fires,
7 00
James Howard, new roads,
4 75
Horace Bartlett, fires,
4 50
Henry Copeland,
35 70
M. A. Ripley.
28 93
Thomas Snell, fires,
2 00
Edward Tisdale, fires,
103 85
M. F. Delano,
75
: M. A. Ripley,
4 00
Albert Copeland, painting,
6 25
( James Mel'ann, making returns,
1 00
Amount carried forward, $401 21
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Amount brought forward,
$401 21
Dav's Copeland, paid for gravel,
42 20
Heman Copeland,
4 60
Thomas Snell, shingles,
8 75
Clinton P. Howard, posts,
8 55
Clinton P. Howard, town hall,
75 00
Charles Atwell, repairing road scraper,
3 60
Arthur Morrison, fires,
1 00
$544 91
Appropriation for 1883,
600 00
TOWN OFFICERS.
Heman Copeland, as auditor,
$3 00
S. N. Howard,
2 00
Benjamin Howard, 66
2 00
W. A. Linehan, constable,
2 25
Lucius Dunbar, school committee,
7 50
George M. Pratt, collector,
150 00
Henry Copeland, selectman and assessor,
192 00
Molbry A. Ripley,
96 00
Samuel H. Howard,
51 00
J. A. Shores, superintendent of schools,
134 50
James Howard, town clerk,
34 72
Charles E. Churchill, constable,
5 00
฿679 97
Appropriation for 1883,
700 00
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE HIGHWAYS.
Appropriations for 1882,
$2,500 00
Amount expended, 1,945 42
Appropriation for new roads,
500 00
Amount expended, 75 00
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE SCHOOLS.
Appropriation for 1883. State school fund,
$3,000 00
233 41
$3,233 41
Amount expended,
3,449 67
Appropriation for School repairs,
600 00
Amount expended,
479 41
OLD CEMETERIES.
Appropriation, $50 00
Of this appropriation no money has been used.
A full account of the condition of the schools and highways will be found in the reports of the several superintendents and committees.
STATE AID.
Under chapter 301, Acts 1879, paid the following persons :
James P. Gallagher,
$72 00
Charles T. Morse,
54 00
Francis W. Wood,
24 00
Patrick Dorgan,
66 00
John A. Freese,
54 00
William H. Jennings,
66 00
Lucius Dunbar,
72 00
Bradford Packard,
72 00
William A. Linehan,
52 50
Benjamin Phillips,
36 00
Charles E. Churchill,
72 00
Ellis R. Holbrook,
36 00
William Crockett,
12 50
Mary E. Howard,
48 00
Amount carried forward,
$737 00
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Amount brought forward,
$737 00
Mary E. Kingman,
48 00
Lucinda S. Lothrop,
48 00
Hannah R. Stanley,
48 CO
Harriett S. Bouldry,
48 00
Mary J. Reeves,
48 00
Amelia H. Gilmore,
48 00
Salome Stetson,
4 00
Andrew W. Perkins,
3 00
$1,032 00
MILITARY AID.
Under chapter 252, Acts 1879.
William B. Smith,
$15 00
George B. Randall,
48 00
David W. Tinkham,
8 00
$71 00
TREASURER'S ACCOUNT.
RECEIPTS.
Balance in treasury Feb. 1, 1883,
$2,825 62
Balance of corporation tax,
57 62
Six per cent on 1882 taxes received after Oct. 15th, 1882,
140 00
Milo Howard, cash,
20 00
Town of Bridgewater,
17 00
Amount carried forward, $177 00
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Amount brought forward, James Howard, on note, 66
$177 00
500 00
500 00
Mark Dunbar,
500 00
Susan E. Bowman,“
200 00
James Howard,
200 00
Town of Stoughton,
32 00
East Bridgewater savings bank, for library,
792 06
Corporation tax,
508 94
Bank tax,
652 71
State aid,
1.077 00
Military aid.
64 00
Sundries,
13 33
Dog tax,
219 29
Income from school fund,
233 41
Town grant,
11,401 68
$19,954 66
EXPENDITURES OF TREASURY.
State tax,
$840 00
County tax,
901 60
M. A. Ripley, note and interest,
108 75
Mark Dunbar, note and interest,
511 25
James Howard, note and interest.
510 74
206 00
James C. Leighton, note and interest.
216 00
George M. Pratt,
111 00
Discount on tax for 1883,
684 10
Abatement,
112 76
Library,
794 86
Incidentals,
544 91
Poor out of house,
1,132 59
Town farm,
913 02
Highways,
2,020 42
Amount carried forward,
$9,608 00
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Amount brought forward,
$9,608 00
State aid,
1,032 00
Military aid,
71 00
Lectures,
100 00
Town officers,
679 97
Schools,
3,449 67
School repairs,
479 41
Suppression of crime,
91 45
$15,511 50
Balance in treasury,
4,443 16
$19,954 66
JAMES HOWARD, Treasurer.
CONDITION OF TREASURY.
Cash on hand,
$3,020 55
Uncollected taxes.
1,422 61
$4,443 16
Due from State for state aid furnished,
$1,032 00
military aid furnished,
71 00
Town of Wareham,
242 28
Bridgewater,
35 94
Braintree,
86 11
City of New Bedford,
8 55
State for state paupers,
183 20
$1,659 08
AUDITORS' REPORT.
We, the undersigned, have examined the accounts of the treasurer of West Bridgewater for the year ending February 1, 1884, and have found them properly cast and vouched for.
CHARLES E. TISDALE, Į Auditors.
HORACE W. HOWARD, S
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LIST OF JURORS FOR 1884.
As prepared by the Selectmen.
Cyrus Alger,
Edward H. Keith,
Charles W. Bacon,
Wallace C. Keith,
Samuel D. Bartlett,
William A. Linehan,
Bradford Copeland,
John A. Millett,
Frank Copeland,
Japhet Packard,
John Copeland,
George R. Drake,
Justin W. Richards, Sylvester Rice,
Lucius Dunbar,
Henry W. Ripley,
Jonas G. Hartwell,
Thomas P. Ripley,
Linus G. Hayward,
William F. Ryder.
Clinton P. Howard,
William N. Shipman,
James Howard,
Charles E. Tisdale,
Joseph C. Howard,
Charles Thayer,
Samuel H. Howard.
Abiel Washburn.
WE RECOMMEND THE TOWN TO APPROPRIATE.
For the support of the poor. $1,300 00
support of schools, 3.000 00
school repairs and school incidentals, 200 00
highways,
2,000 00
town officers,
700 00
incidentals,
600 00
public lectures, 100 00
repairing old cemeteries, 50 00
memorial services, 1,000 00
The next annual town meeting will be held on Monday, the 10 day of March, 1884, at one o'clock, P. M.
HENRY COPELAND, Selectmen, Assessors and
MOLBRY A. RIPLEY,
SAMUEL H. HOWARD, ) Overseers of the Poor.
West Bridgewater, Feb. 1, 1884.
REPORT OF THE ROAD COMMISSIONERS.
Your Commissioners are aware that complaint has been made by some that there has not been anything done to certain roads. We do not expect to suit every one, but have tried to spend the money on such roads as were suffering for repairs the most, considering the amount of travel which passes over them. It is not possible to go all over town in a thorough manner with the sum appropriated. We think, taking the roads as a whole, that they are in better condi- tion than they were before the town adopted the present system, although we have done some heavy jobs that are permanent improvements and that the use, wear and tear of our roads are constantly increasing in some sections to such an extent that they require more constant attention than they did years ago.
We think by continued use of screened gravel our roads will improve, and that by so doing, we shall save a large part of the expense of picking stones from the surface of the roads, which has in years past been expensive and unsat- isfactory work. We congratulate ourselves and the town on our good fortune in being able to secure a good quality of gravel within a few rods of the highway leading from East Bridgewater to Brockton. This street has a great amount of heavy carting and other travel, and has been a very expensive road to repair in times past, as the material has been carted a mile or more and of inferior quality.
In regard to new roads, we have expended the balance of seventy-five dollars which remained unexpended of the appropriation for last year, upon the new road leading
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from the corner north of C. N. Martin's house to the Brock- ton line, as directed by a vote of the town, and have opened the same as a public highway.
We received a petition signed by Michael O'Fallen and others, for a new road where there is now a private .way, leading from Main street to George street ; also for one leading from said private way to the Bridgewater line. After giving due notice to all interested, we viewed the premises and laid out roads as petitioned for, and made a return of our doings in regard to the same to the town clerk. We have not expended the money appropriated for the above roads, for the reason that the roads have not been accepted by the town as town roads. If the town accept the roads as laid out, it will require an expenditure of at least one thousand dollars to put them in a passable condition.
We again call your attention to the condition of the road in the swamp on Main street, between Pine Hill cemetery and Edmund Geary's house. Much of the way is narrow and dangerous, considering the amount of travel it has. We would recommend to have the bounds of the same located, and the road widened, if necessary, and to make an appropriation for filling the sides.
We are requested by John H. Packard to call your atten- tion to the narrowness of the road between Albert Cope- land's and Heman Copeland's.
GUIDE BOARDS,
The Road Commissioners recommend that guide boards be maintained at the following places:
Joshua T. Ryder's,
John Walker's, 2d,
Justin W. Richards's,
Molbry A. Ripley's,
James Alger's furnace,
Joseph Kingman's, Lewis Ryder's,
Barnabas Dunbar's,
Pine Hill Cemetery,
Cyrus P. Browne's,
Charles Howard's, Joseph Alger's,
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West of Almshouse,
Edmund Geary's,
Pardon Copeland's,
North Center school-house,
Heman Copeland's,
Nahum Leonard's,
J. Q. Hartwell's,
Stillman W. Hersey's, Dwelley Forbes's, Benjamin Howard's, George Wilbur's, John B. Holmes's,
George R. Drake's store, Center Post Office,
D. W. Gardner's.
STATEMENT.
Amount in treasury, Feb. 1, 1883,
$581 85
Appropriation for repairs of roads and bridges for 1883,
2,500 00
3,081 85
Amount expended to Feb. 1, 1884.
1,945 42
Balance unexpended, Feb. 1, 1884,
$1,136 43
FOR NEW ROADS.
Amount in treasury, Feb. 1, 1883,
$75 00
Appropriation for new roads for 1883,
500 00
575 00
Amount expended to Feb. 1, 1884,
75 00
Balance unexpended, Feb. 1, 1884,
$500 00
DAVIS COPELAND,
EDWARD TISDALE,
Road Commissioners.
LINUS E. HAYWARD,
REPORT OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
There has been added to the library, 429 volumes by pu :- chase during the past year, many of which are standard works of permanent value, consisting of choice selections, and embracing most all subjects.
There have been donations, also, from Mr. John S. Martin, and from Mr. C. W. Copeland, amounting to 38 volumes, making the total number of books in the library, February 1, 1884. 2162.
The books in all the departments have been selected with much care and criticism, and they constitute a compre- hensive and valuable library for a small town, and for the amount of money invested, we now have a good number of books which may be perused for profit as well as for pleasure.
Additions should be annually made of books in the several departments, and selected with the same vigilant care, that the high standard of the library shall be maintained, and to that end the town should manifest a liberal purpose.
The time for opening the library has been changed from Saturday to Wednesday of each week, to better accommo- date many who patronize it.
EXPENSES OF THE LIBRARY.
The expenses for sustaining the library the past year were as follows :
Librarian's salary,
$104 00
Paid for books purchased,
519 46
periodicals, magazine, etc.,
29 80
paper for covers, 93
Amount carried forward,
$654 19
21
Amount brought forward,
$654 19
Paid for express, 1 35
new catalogue and expenses on,
178 97
expenses of the room, etc.,
8 01
postage,
24
new binding books,
16 05
A bill for books which was unpaid Feb. 1, and owed for, 33 34
Makes the amount actually paid,
$825 47
RECEIPTS OF THE LIBRARY.
In hands of treasurer of library, Feb. 1, 1883, $1 14
Received from the town treasury, April 6, 1883,
500 00
June 18, 177 72
.6 Jan. 31, " 117 14
Received for sale of catalogues and cards,
15 27
fines by delinquents, 14 20
$825 47
Due for bill of books bought in Jan. 1884,
33 34
$858 81
By the librarian's memoranda, it appears that the total number of books taken from the library during the year, was 6479, or a weekly distribution of about 125 volumes, divided among the various classes of subject matter in the following ratio, viz : Fiction, about 51 per cent .; juvenile, about 20 per cent .: travels, about 41 per cent .; history and humorous, about 21 per cent, each; science and general literature, about 2 per cent. each ; biography, about 3 per cent ; poetry, about 12 per cent .; magazines, periodicals. about 10 per cent.
Any person who wants a copy of the new catalogue can get it from the librarian.
The balance of the library fund, after paying the last bill of books of $33.34, including the dividend from the dog tax of 1883, will amount to $582.48.
Respectfully submitted, JAMES HOWARD,
For the Trustees of the Public Library.
$858 81
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
Marriages Recorded in West Bridgewater in 1883.
Jan. 1. Clifford J. Hall of Raynham and Louise E. Alger of West Bridgewater.
Feb. 1. George Walker and Peline Scofield, both of West Bridgewater.
Feb. 14. Martin Dunbar and Elizabeth R. Johnson, both of West Bridgwater.
March 6. Edgar E. Worcester of East Bridgewater and Henrietta Lothrop of West Bridgewater.
March 14. Samuel G. Copeland and Carrie E. Leonard, both of West Bridgewater.
May 21. Arthur P. Packard of West Bridgewater and Almira E. Macomber of Brockton.
June 13. Julius L. Hayward of West Bridgewater and Ida Aldridge of East Bridgewater.
June
19. Frank H. Jones and Emma L. Lothrop, both of West Bridgewater.
July 28. George Shipman and Florence Howland, both of West Bridgewater.
Sept. 1. Frederic H. Baker and May B. Dunbar, both of West Bridgewater.
Sept. 19. Frederic Wm. Shaw of Columbus, Neb. and Adelia Mignette Delano of West Bridge- water.
Oct.
10. Alphonzo J. Pillsbury and Lizzie Snell, both
of West Bridgewater.
Births Recorded in the Town of West Bridgewater in 1883.
DATE OF BIRTH.
NAME OF CHILD.
SEX.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
1881.
July
20
George A. Hopkins.
.
.
.
.
.
1882.
May
2
Jennie L. Keith,
Female.
Sumner D. and Ada A Keith.
1883. Jannary March
7
Emma Eliza Gassett.
An Hayes.
Percy F. Hopkins.
Male. ·
.
Leopard W. and Mary A. Hunt.
April
7
13
Ann O'Leary,
..
.
Thomas J. and Kate Marmion.
May
3
Margaret M. Cotter. Fred Norman.
Male.
John and Josie Norman.
..
8
- Kane.
Anna Galvin.
Female.
Luther C. and Emma F. Turner.
Augusi
10
Harold Sidney Lyon,
Male.
Algenon S. and Louisa F. Lyon.
16
Daniel Edward Frye.
Alice Lucretia Packard.
Female.
George and Ermin Frye. Charles E. and Eugenie E. Packard. Michael and Ellen O'Fallen. George C. and Fanny Beals. .
October
2
Beals.
Marion B. Loring.
Walter Lincoln Wilds.
Male.
November 10
14
Annie Marie Ryder.
Female.
22
John Keenan.
Male. 66
Peter aud Mary Keenan.
23
Isaac F. Hayward.
Naham Fand Maria Hayward.
·
·
Jolin and Ellen Hayes.
.
.
.
George G. and Etta R. Hopkins.
Eva Alice Hunt.
Female.
Lawrence and Margaret O'Leary. .
15
Hattie Ruthena Alger. John P. Marinion ..
Male.
Female.
.
23
June
2
Charles and Mary E Ka e. Michael and Anna Galvin.
July ...
2
8
Pearl E. Turner.
September 16
27
Mary Ellen O'Fallen
.
11
W. Sidney and Clara E. Loring. Edwin L. and Caroline E. Wilds. William F. and Ellen W. Ryder.
8
29
.
.
Nathan J. and Sophronia A. Alger.
30
.
Richard and Margaret Cotter.
Nelson W. and Martha A. Gassett. .
Male.
George G. and Etta R. Hopkins.
Deaths Registered in the Town of West Bridgewater in 1883.
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Age.
Place of Birth.
Disease.
1883.
Y.
M.
D.
Feb.
4
Salome W. Stetson.
75
2
18
5
Lewis Howard.
66
6
16
West Bridgewater.
17
Sarah M Howard.
37
6
20
Turner, Me.
Pneumonia.
Apr.
4
Marv E. Dean.
39
5
27
Easton.
Con. Phthisis.
18
Mary A. Perkins.
77
1
11
Aug. 3
Mercy S. Pember.
53
11
15
Ellen Fitzgerald.
17
7
15
West Bridgewater.
Sept. 7
Semantha Dunbar.
68
11
23
West Bridgewater.
Bright's Disease.
Oct.
2
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