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By means of this machine-like system of grading and promo- tions, kept in running order by the uniform examinations, the bright, the mediocre, and the dull are all fashioned alike; the individual is lost sight of; without respect to differences in ability and effort, the tendency is to reduce the unfortunate children to " symmetrical nonentities ".
Within the last few years, a number of schemes of more flexible grading have been evolved which have been of assist- ance in ameliorating the evils of the hard-and-fast system of yearly promotions.
The group system of classification has been adopted in many places, apparently with gratifying results. Mr. Prince, in the Educational Review for last March, quoted the plan of the superintendent at Leominster as follows: "In the lowest grades we divide pupils into four or five groups, higher grades into three, and sometimes possibly only two. Pupils pass readily from one group to the next higher without the so- called ' jump' whereby a certain amount of work is always lost. Pupils in the most advanced group in a room are doing about the same work as pupils in the lowest division or group of the next higher room. This enables pupils to go readily from one group to another, and at the same time also from one room to another."
In a recent number of the Journal of Education, Superin- tendent Lewis of Hastings, Minnesota, writes as follows of his plan : " In 1878, I divided the work in the grades below the high school into twenty-four, instead of the eight parts into which they were then divided, so there was only twelve weeks instead of a year's work between classes." The weak pupil has only to drop back twelve weeks to find a class where he can work to advantage. The bright pupil has but a gap of twelve weeks to cover in order to " gain a class." Mr. Hastings says further : Thus it is apparent that we deal with individuals as well as with groups. We have no such thing as promotion of classes ; a group simply progresses from one division of the work to another, or as we say from term to
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term, regardless of the vacations ; but when a pupil closes the gap between his own and the class above, there is an ' indi- vidual promotion ' at whatever time of the year or day of the week he is ready for promotion."
These are but two of many similar plans. I have given you these outlines that you may gain an idea of the reform which our own school system must soon undergo if we are to escape the dead formalism of our present plan, and keep pace with modern educational progress. The change of systems could be brought about much more easily in this town if the present grading were simplified as I have suggested in the early part of these recommendations. In consequence of the better dis- tribution of the work, the teachers would take hold of the new plan with better courage and we could feel reasonably confident of final success. These measures which look toward more elastic grading, demand your serious attention, and I trust they will receive your hearty co-operation.
This report would not be complete without a word concern- ing the High School as conducted at the Howard Seminary. Miss Laughton, the new principal of the Seminary, has ex- pressed an earnest desire to do all she can for the town and its people, and to establish closer relations between the town schools and the High School. She has placed this depart- ment in charge of Miss Grant who has had much experience in the line of work required, and hopes, with the concurrence of the citizens, to make the High School popular and pros- perous. I suggest to the townspeople that they take pains to become familiar with the institution in question and to come into close touch with its teachers and principal. The mutual interest thus aroused would be a social and material benefit both to the Seminary and to the town.
I ask you, parents and citizens, to do what you can also to establish a warmer sympathy between yourselves and the teachers of the common schools. Do not wait for public exer- cises ; visit the schools when they are doing every-day work. By your presence, you will arouse the pupils and inspire the
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teachers to stronger effort. Become familiar with the needs and merits of the schools, and the committee, the teachers, and the superintendent will appreciate your advice and co- operation.
I wish to express my sincere approbation of the faithful work and loyalty of the teachers. I thank the citizens for the courtesy they have shown me, and the members of the com- mittee for their kind assistance and valuable counsel.
Respectfully submitted, FRANK O. JONES, Superintendent of Schools.
EAST BRIDGEWATER, Jan. 1899.
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REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC.
Town of West Bridgewater.
Education consists in developing the intellect, and a study has value in so far as it is a developer.
Music deals largely with the emotions and by means of this power has great advantages in the development of the child mind. For when we have reached the emotional side of the child, we have reached to the depths of the soul, and then that soul is ours for grand development.
Music in the public schools can be 'made to serve many purposes ; some of these we have accomplished in our work the past year.
Music as music has a value ; it also has a great value as an assistant along other lines of study.
Nothing so directly aids in the development of the sense of hearing as music. Work with this end in view is constantly given in the lower grades.
Songs of the seasons help largely in the nature work, which study to-day is threading so generally the work in primary grades. The patriotic songs have assisted in the instilling of patriotism ; they also serve as a means of inspiration.
All teachers have probably discovered the value of song in changing the mental and moral atmosphere of the schoolroom, especially in the lower grades.
It is in the primary grades the rote song has found its home; and it is here the scale and scale relation of tones is mastered.
In these grades is first presented the idea of rhythm and intervals. But to have music serve a high purpose in the upper grades, the technique must be acquired.
In the lower grades it is absorbed, as it were, by repeated presentation ; in the upper it is acquired through study. Ere
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the ninth grade work is finished the pupils should be familiar with all the standard keys, and acquire an ability to read and sing in any of these at sight; understand the use and beauty of chromatics, and appreciate rhythm in all its forms; also have a clear idea of the major and minor effects in music.
Our purpose is to give pupils a thorough foundation in the art of singing and reading music, not forgetting that the growing voice must have proper attention for its own right development, and for the production of pure, sweet, musical tones.
It has also been our endeavor to so present and develop our subject that the lives of our pupils will be sweetened, broadened and inspired thereby.
Respectfully submitted,
ANNIE M. BARNES, Supervisor of Music.
TOWN OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES OF WEST BRIDGEWATER
ANNUAL REPORT
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WEST BRIDGEWATER MASSACHUSETTS
1900
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
OF
WEST BRIDGEWATER
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING JANUARY 1, 1900.
TAUNTON : PRINTED BY C. A. HACK & SON, 1900.
TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1899.
Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor. E. BRADFORD WILBUR, SAMUEL G. COPELAND, CHARLES E. TISDALE, (deceased.) Town Clerk. CHAREES R. PACKARD. Treasurer and Collector. FRANK L. HOWARD. School Committee.
MRS. A. L. LELACHEUR,
MRS. M. K. CROSBY,
CLINTON P. HOWARD,
CAROLINE H. COPELAND, WILLIAM H. BOSWORTH, EDWARD E. BROWN.
Trustees of Public Library.
CHARLES R. PACKARD, MRS. CHARLOTTE A. WILLIAMS, MISS ELIZABETH KINGMAM, MISS EDITH F. HOWARD, ELLIS S. LELACHEUR,
CURTIS EDDY,
Superintendent of Streets. WILLIAM F. RYDER. Constables.
HERBERT W. PACKARD, BENJAMIN F. BROOKS, CHARLES H. EGAN,
IRVING E. WHEELER,
ESROM J. MORSE,
DAVID R. SIMMONS,
LIONEL H. ADAMS. Sealer of Weights and Measures. FRANK L. HOWARD. Field Drivers.
CLINTON P. HOWARD, Fence Viewers.
CLINTON P. HOWARD, SAMUEL G. COPELAND, Measurers of Lumber.
CLINTON P. HOWARD, FRANK H. JONES,
DANIEL B. DAVIS,
MELBRY A. RIPLEY.
Measurers of Wood and Bark.
EDWIN H. THAYER, FRANK H. JONES,
CHAS. R. PACKARD,
CLINTON P. HOWARD,
HORACE BARTLETT. Registrars of Voters.
HORACE BARTLETT, JAMES S. JONES, ARTHUR C. PECKHAM.
Auditors.
GEORGE S. DRAKE.
Pound Keeper. WARDEN OF TOWN FARM. Public Weighers.
ARTHUR E. CLARKE, EDWARD MADDEN,
JAMES O. ALGER, EDWIN LOTHROP,
CLINTON P. HOWARD.
THOMAS HENNESSEY.
DAVID R. SIMMONS.
GEORGE F. LOGUE,
Annual Report of the Assessors, Overseers of the Poor and Selectmen.
The following report of the financial condition of the town January 1, 1390, is respectfully submitted :
REPORT OF THE ASSESSORS.
VALUATION. As Assessed May 1, 1899.
Valuation of real estate,
$975,912.00
Value of personal estate,
241,258.00
$1,217,170.00
ASSESSMENTS.
State tax,
$570.00
County tax,
1,449.27
2,019.27
Town grant,
12,200.00
Overlay,
674.59
Subsequent tax,
2.29
12,876.88
Total tax,
$14,896.15
Rate of tax, $11.50 per $1,000. Poll tax, $2.00.
Number of polls,
447
acres of land,
9,434
dwelling houses, 400
4
Number of horses,
316
66
cows,
673
sheep,
16
swine,
124
young stock,
109
66 fowl,
1,538
APPROPRIATIONS.
For support of schools,
$4,000.00
supplies and repairs,
500.00
" transportation of pupils,
450.00
support of poor,
1,500.00
highways and sidewalks, $3,500.00
3,984.14
street railway tax,
484.14 S
" town officers,
900.00
incidentals,
600.00
superintendent of schools,
250.00
new floor and desks at Center Grammar School,
300.00
Memorial Day,
100.00
" flag staff,
100.00
$12,684.14
TOWN PROPERTY.
Value of New Almshouse and wood house,
$5,000.00
town farm,
3,500.00
personal property,
2,558.50
eight school-houses,
12,300.00
town library,
2,500.00
derrick,
25.00
66 road scraper,
75.00
four safes,
500.00
eight snow plows,
56.00
office furniture,
50.00
E. BRADFORD WILBUR, - SAMUEL G. COPELAND,
Assessors.
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REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF POOR.
INVENTORY AT ALMSHOUSE JAN. 1, 1900.
10 tons of English hay,
$180.00
10 tons of meadow and swale hay, corn and other grain,
83.00
4 bushels beans,
6.00
13 cows and 1 bull,
555.00
2 oxen,
155.00
1 horse,
100.00
65 fowl,
48.75
21 bushels pop corn,
3.75
600 lbs. fertilizer,
9.00
55 bushels potatoes,
37.00
150 bushels turnips,
37.50
1 ton corn fodder,
7.00
100 1bs. quash,
1.00
corn planter,
20.00
4 hogs,
30.00
20 1bs. lard,
2.00
35 lbs. butter,
10.50
2 bbls. flour,
9.00
groceries and molasses,
18.00
290 1bs. sugar,
15.00
tea and coffee,
5.00
2 pork barrels,
1.00
soap and oil,
8.00
20 lbs. crackers,
1.00
20 1bs. fish,
1.20
dried apples,
1.00
30 lbs. rolled oats,
1.20
10 lbs. rice,
.60
4 bush onions,
3.00
Amount carried forward,
$1,449.50
100.00
6
Amount brought forward,
$1,449.50
10 gallons of vinegar,
2.00
corn sheller, 4.00
carpenter tools and vise,
10.00
step ladder,
-
1.00
express wagon,
25.00
2 hay carts,
45.00
1 covered wagon,
35.00
2 tip carts,
50.00
1 pung,
6.00
harnesses,
30.00
ox sled and wheelbarrow,
6.00
3 ox yokes,
6.00
2 hay cutters,
5.00
4 stoves and hot water boiler, grind stone, wheel hoe,
3.00
2 mowing machines, rake and tedder,
75.00
6 plows, 3 harrows and other tools, horse sled,
60.00
2 ladders,
3.00
washing machine,
6.00
robes and blankets,
4.00
beds and bedding,
100.00
household furniture,
215.00
tinware,
10.00
crockery,
10.00
wooden ware,
9.00
table linen, towles,
4.00
3 churns,
5.00
coal,
72.00
manure and ashes,
100.00
wood,
50.00
lumber,
90.00
$2,558.50
Inventory, January 1st, 1899,
2,264.00
Gain in inventory,
$294.50
60 00
3.00
5.00
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RECEIPTS AT ALMSHOUSE.
Cash on hand January 1st, 1899,
$88.04
Received for milk,
1,375.06
66
stock,
45.75
66
potatoes,
11.98
66
eggs and poultry,
54.90
66
vegetables,
8.25
use of stock,
.50
lumber,
179.00
66
wood,
102.00
66
hay,
52.00
Horace Bartlett, trustee, for board of Sarah B.
Howard, from May 4, '98, to January 1, 1900, 193.50
Drawn from the Treasury for
E. H. Lothrop,
374.33
J. E. Sawyer,
235.00
H. E. Scott.
40.00
$2,760.31
EXPENDITURES AT ALMSHOUSE.
Paid for flour,
52.80
66
meat,
166.62
66
grain,
601.74
66
butter and cheese,
67.63
66
fish,
17.33
66
doctor bill,
11.45
66
veterinary's bill,
13.00
66 clothing,
28.41
repairs,
5.05
66
labor,
232.56
labor on wood and lumber,
139.90
66
seeds,
18.01
66 lumber,
1.56
Amount brought forward, $1,442.86
coal,
86.80
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Amount brought forward, Paid for sugar and molasses,
$1,442.86
fertilizer,
82.50
stock,
223.50
66
tools,
34.60
66
hardware,
14.12
cash to paupers,
1.25.
tobacco,
10.60
saw bill,
83.13
66
smith work,
34.15
66
tea' and coffee,
18.12
66
groceries, -
68.26
boots and shoes,
14.30
66
crackers,
4.23
warden's salary,
362.50
66
soap and oil,
14.34
ice,
11.05
salt,
3.25
66
crockery, glass and tinware,
3.95
66
table linen, etc.,
1.75
paint,
2.08
66
lard,
12.68
6.
barb wire,
6.48
66
harness,
16.00
66
milk cooler,
6.91 1
66
vinegar,
4.06
1.31
6. rolled oats,
6.50
beans,
7.90
apples and turnips,
4.73
yeast,
1.62
66
hay,
50.00
Cash on hand,
155.32
$2,760.31
matches,
56.26
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COST OF SUPPORTING POOR AT ALMSHOUSE.
Drawn from treasury per almshouse acct.,
$649.33
Gain in inventory, $294.50
Cash on hand,
155,32
$449.82
179.51
INMATES AT ALMSHOUSE.
AGE.
WEEKS.
Edmund Alger,
87
52
Albert Staples,
57
52
Conn. Sullivan,
65
33
George B. Randall,
73
52
Ansel Alger,
82
52
George L. Edison,
87
52
Sarah B. Howard, (boarder),
67
52
Michael Ryan,
51
8
The warden during the year has lodged and fed 138 tramps.
EXPENSE OF POOR OUT OF HOUSE.
Aid to Theodore F. Wentworth,
$37.00
66 Mrs. Kinney,
64.00
Mrs. R. B. Morse,
3.00
John A. W. Alger,
20.16
Arthur Packard,
197.70
66 Henry Withington,
84.26
66
Ansel T. Bartlett,
24.00
66 Mrs Ruth Brown,
4.00
66
Mertons G. Churchill's children,
171.50
Fred Leonard,
178.00
66 Mrs. William Gorman,
6.24
Amount carried forward,
$789.86
10
Amount brought forward,
$789.86
Aid to George Kinnear,
21.00
George Dunbar's children, 156.00
Mrs. Harriet Packard,
121.45
66 Isaac H. Bates,
81.25
Mrs. George Ellis and family,
10.25
66 Frank Fadden's child,
64.25
66
Mrs. Joseph Morse,
123.00
66 George W. Blanchard,
20.00
66 Mrs. E. J. Packard,
169.46
66
Mrs. Abbie Fadden,
52.00
66 Charles E. Fisher,
55.50
66
Nathaniel Pratt,
44.63
66 Mary Leach and child, 23.00
Mrs. Richard Westcoat and children, 29.00
$1,760.65
Received from Merton G. Churchill,
$88.00
Due from the town of Easton,
20.00
city of Brockton,
81.25
66 town of Dighton,
29.00
Bridgewater,
37.00
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66
66 Plympton, 44.36
66 State, for Geo. Kinnear, 21.00
66 Mrs. Geo. Ellis, 10.25
66
66
66 Mrs. Ruth Brown, 4.00
334.86
Cost to the town,
#1,425.79
E. BRADFORD WILBUR, ) Overseers SAMUEL G. COPELAND, S of the Poor.
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REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
INCIDENTAL ACCOUNT.
Paid to Howard Clark & Co., return of deaths,
1.00
C. L. McCann, 1.75
Elihu Leonard, for burying a child, 2.00
Boston Globe, advertising, 1.88
66 F. L. Howard, postal cards, postage, etc., 22.43
10.00
Wm. E. Fay, printing, 19.75
C. A. Hack & Son, 56.20
Thomas Groom, tax books, 2.75
H. E. Weston, 18 mos. rent hall and office, 225,00
66
G. R. Drake, rope for flag staff, telephone, etc., 4.88
66
F. S. Howard, return of deaths, 4.75
F. E. Howard, interest on Copeland fund, 4.00
66
D. R. Simmons, burying a dog, 1.50
G. M. Pratt, deeds and expense, 6.36
66 George R. Bailey, services in Churchill care, 6.10
4.50
Henry Withington, care of monument grounds,
5.00
J. O. Alger, irons for safe foundations,
11.29
L. E. Hayward, care of old cemetery,
1.00
S. B. Hethering, cutting wood at office,
2.00
66 Mrs. S. B. Hetherington, cleaning office, .75
66
E. S. LeLacheur, returning births,
1.50
66
Harris & Barker, counsel fees in Foye ) case, Churchill case, and other questions of law,
31.10
E. B. Wilbur, use of horse, cash ex- pense, postage, etc. 36.13
66
S. G. Copeland, wood for office, 5.00
66 Philip Fay, care of old cemetery, 2.00
$470.62
·
C. P. Hilstrum, repairs on pump,
P. A. Aubertin, counsel in Clark case, ) by order of B. F. Brooks,
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TOWN OFFICERS.
Appropriation,
$900.00
Paid to D. R. Simmons, inspector, 120.65
66 D. R. Simmons, constable,
36.10
66 George F. Logue, auditor, 2.50
66 George F. Logue, election officer,
1.50
Arthur C. Peckham, “ 66
1.50
66 Frank L. Howard, town treasurer,
200.00
66 B. F. Brooks, constable, 8.00
66 Howard B. Wilbur, moderator, 5.00
M. K. Crosby, clerk of school committee, and use of team, 16.50
8.00
66 E. J. Morse,
17.93
E. B. Wilbur, selectman, assessor and over- seer of the poor, 248.25
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S. G. Copeland, selectman, assessor and over- seer of the poor, 100.00
66 C. E. Tisdale, selectman, assessor and over- seer of the poor, 112.60
J. S. Jones, registrar, 6.90
66
Irving Wheeler, constable, 5.00
66
D. W. Gardner, constable,
2.00
66 Horace Bartlett, registrar,
14.70
66 G. T. Shaw, special constable, 2.00
66 Herbert W. Packard, constable, 7.00
66 Charles H. Egan, election officer, 2.00
66 C. R. Packard, town clerk,
65.58
$983.71
Received from Brockton police court, fines,
135.00
$848.71
L. H. Adams, constable,
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STATE AID.
Paid to Isaac H. Bates,
$60.00
George N. Blanchard,
72.00
William T. Britton,
24.00
Charles E. Churchill and wife,
96.00
66 William Crockett and wife,
108.00
Seth Edson,
48.00
James P. Gallagher,
72.00
66
Samuel Gammell,
24.00
Lnius E. Hayward and wife,
84.00
66
William H. Jennings,
72.00
James H. Leonard,
48.00
James P. Lincoln,
48.00
66
Andrew Perkins,
120.00
Nathaniel Pratt,
72.00
66
William B. Smith,
68.00
66
George S. Wentworth,
48.00
Mary E. Alger,
48.00
Mary E. Howard,
48.00
Elizabeth F. Leonard,
44.00
Hannah R. Stanley,
32.00
Michael Logue,
44.00
66
Willard Howard,
48.00
66
William E. Cole,
16.00
Henry Hiatt,
72.00
Samuel D. Bartlett,
10.00
F. S. Howard, burial of Henry Withington,
35.00
66 F. S. Howard, " " Mrs. E. F. Leonard,
35.00
$1,496.00
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NAMES OF JURORS.
For acceptance or revision by the town at its annual meeting.
Henry W. Ripley,
Seba H. Marshall,
William H. Bosworth, Lionel H. Adams,
Everett Clark, Charles E. Leonard, Henry Bartlett,
Henry Hartwell,
William A. Cole,
William H. Washburn,
Frank L. Howland,
Edward E. Brown,
Bradford Copeland,
William B. Kingman,
Octave Belmore,
Azel Lothrop, Frank L. Howard, John E. Caldwell, Henry O. Davenport, William F. Ryder, Charles E. Dunbar, Myron H. Packard, Edwin H. Thayer, Ellis R. Holbrook, Michael O. Fallon, John W. Darling, Robert H. Hatch, John M. Richards, Clinton P. Howard, T. Prescott Snell.
NAMES OF JURORS DRAWN IN 1899.
James S. Jones,
Henry W. Leach,
Farnham Gillespie,
Edwin L. Pratt,
Fred A. Perkins,
David L. Lombard, George F. Logue, Jonas Hartwell.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF SCHOOLS.
There has been drawn from the treasury for schools, school repairs and supplies, $5,547.30
Appropriation for schools, $4,000.00
Appropriat'n, school repairs and supplies, 500.00 Appropriat'n, new floor and desks at Center, 300.00 Received from school fund, 294.43
Received from state on account of district supervision, 166.67 5,261.10
Overdrawn,
$286.20
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SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT.
There has been drawn from the treasury for superintendent of schools, $250.00
TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOLS.
There has been drawn from the treasury for transporting scholars,
$446.52
Appropriation,
450.00
There has been drawn from treasury for library,
$398.50
FLAG STAFF.
Appropriation,
$100.00
Paid Benjamin R. Kinney,
100.00
MEMORIAL.
Appropriation,
$100.00
Paid C. H. Fuller,
3.00
Mrs. J. H. Martin,
2.80
5.80
Balance,
$94.20
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF HIGHWAYS.
Appropriation for roads and sidewalks : Town grant,
$3,500.00
Street railway tax,
484.14
$3,984.14
Drawn from the treasury on bills approved
by the superintendent of streets,
3,945.40
Balance,
$38.74
At a meeting of the selectmen, held at their office March 7, William F. Rider was appointed superintendent of streets.
WE RECOMMEND THE TOWN TO APPROPRIATE :
For the support of poor,
$1,500.00
66 transportation of pupils, 450.00
schools,
4,000.00
repairs and supplies,
500.00
highways and sidewalks,
3,500.00
" town officers, 900.00
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TOWN MEETING.
Plymouth ss :
To any Constable of the Town of West Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notity and warn the inhabitants of said town, qualified to vote at elections and in town affairs, to assemble at the Town Hall, in said town on Monday, the fifth of March, at one o'clock in the afternoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz :
ART. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting.
ART. 2. To choose all necessary town officers.
ART. 3. To bring in their votes " Yes " or "No " on the following question : "Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"
ART. 4. To hear the annual report of town officers and committees, and act thereon.
ART. 5. To act on the list of jurors as reported by the selectmen.
ART. 6. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the town charges for the ensuing year, and make ap- propriation of the same.
ART. 7. To see if the town will authorize the treasurer to borrow money, in anticipation of taxes, to pay charges against the town.
ART. 8. To see if the town will appropriate money for necessary transportation of pupils to Grammar Schools.
CAUCUS.
A citizens caucus will be held in Town Hall on Monday evening, Feb. 26, 1900, at 7.30 o'clock, for the purpose of nominating all town officers for the ensuing year.
E. BRADFORD WILBUR, Selectmen.
SAMUEL G. COPELAND, S
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TREASURER'S ACCOUNT.
RECEIPTS.
Balance in treasury Jan. 1, 1899,
$8,753.56
Dog fund,
326.69
School fund,
294.43
Town of Easton,
64.75
Town of East Bridgewater,
5.90
City of Brockton,
20 00
Edgerly & Crocker,
2,000.00
Town of Raynham,
7.00
E. P. Shaw, corporation tax,
23.50
Street railway tax,
334.30
Plymouth County Safe Deposit & Trust Co.,
2,000.00
State, for education of children,
47.50
Town of Plymouth,
23.05
People's Savings Bank, Brockton.
1,000.00
R. O. Harris, State allowance supt. schools,
166.67
Prescott Snell, butcher's license,
1.00
Edgerly & Crocker,
1,000.00
Brockton & Taunton Street R'y, commutation tax,
149.13
Brockton & East Bridgewater Street Railway, com- mutation tax,
16.72
Corporation tax,
407.96
National Bank tax,
425.30
State aid,
1,578.00
Street railway tax,
318.29
Brockton police court,
135.00
G. M. Pratt, interest on 1895-6-7 taxes,
201.59
Merton G. Churchill,
88.00
County treas'r, land damage, Center and Elm Sts.,
438.68
Tax list for 1899,
14,896.15
Interest on 1898 taxes, 84 90
$34,808.07
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EXPENDITURES.
Paid for State aid,
$1,496.00
Land damages,
388.75
Library,
398.50
Flag-staff,
100.00
Memorial,
5.80
Town officers,
983.71
Almshouse,
649.33
School superintendent,
250.00
Abatements,
72.63
Highways,
3,945.40
Schools,
5,993.82
Incidentals,
470.62
Poor out of house,
1,760.65
People's Savings Bank, note and interest,
1,010.00
Plymouth County Safe Deposit Trust & Co., note and interest,
1,031.00
Edgerly & Crocker, note and interest,
2,050.00
County tax,
1,449.27
State tax,
570.00
Penalty for failure to make returns,
18.00
Plymouth County Safe Deposit & Trust Co., note and interest,
2,046.07
Cash and uncollected taxes,
10,118.52
$34,808.07
Condition of Treasury January 1, 1900.
Cash on hand,
$635.41
Uncollected taxes, 1898, 1899,
6,706.47
Due from G. M. Pratt,
2,776.64
$10,118.52
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W. Bridgewater, Mass., Jan. 14th, 1900.
We have examined the books and accounts of all the officers intrusted with the receipt, custody or expenditure of money, and all original bills and vouchers on which money has been paid from the treasury of this town, and we find all such books, accounts, bills and vouchers to be correct.
G. S. DRAKE, - Auditors. G. F. LOGUE,
Outstanding note against the Town, $1,000.00
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS.
The Superintendent of Street has approved bills to the following named persons for material and work on the roads. and sidewalks:
L. E. & E. Copeland,
$12.45
E. T. Snell,
8.00
C. M. Howard,
6.00
Charles Burgquist,
8.40
August Burgquist,
9.80
O. K. Ness,
11.00
Andrew Monson,
16.40
W. W. Jones,
2.80
Warren A. Leonard,
2.60
George Millay,
1.60
Elmer C. Snell,
3.00
S. N. Howard,
.80
William A Cole,
4.30
John Norman,
33.00
William Lake,
6.00
Oscar Johnson,
5.00
R. C. Fields,
2.10
Joseph Sylva,
6.50
Emanuel Eovell,
6.40
George Freeman,
4.90
James Finch,
3.20
Alfred Lawson,
6.70
F. J. O'Connor,
4.80
A. O'Connor,
2.80
P. O'Connor, est.,
108.55
John Courtney, Jr.,
4.40
Amount carried forward,
$281.50
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Amount brought forward,
$281.50
David R. Simmons,
1.50
Clinton P. Howard,
123.15
Nels Johnson,
4.00
Ernest Tisdale,
.35
O. W. Fuller,
1.00
George H. Evans,
4.00
Unite K. Leach,
3.70
John Sands,
3.00
Frank Conlon,
3.60
Nels Chelgren,
1.20
D. W. Lambert,
4.70
Charles K. Ness,
4.00
Charles E. Brown,
44.00
F. J. Miller,
1.40
Leonard W. Hunt,
3.00
John P. Peterson,
75.00
William F. Ryder,
333.35
Thomas Hennessey,
190.50
Joseph O'Neil,
9.60
L. H. Adams,
1.25
James O. Alger,
10.25
William L. Woodworth,
4.00
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