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W. D. and Nancy A. Chisholm T. F. and Fannie W. Florest John and Mary O'Donnell
E. F. and Elizabeth Harttmann Bernard and Rose O'Hara Charles S. and Lizzie E. Cook Augustus and Selina Boucher Win. L. and Sadie Enegren George A. and Alice P. Avery Joseplı H. and Bessie Martin E. P. and Edna E. Blackmer Henry A. and Ida E. Watkins Michael and Sarah A. McCarty Lawrence J. and Annie Kelly John T. and Isabella Cherry E. C. and Alice M. Abbott Raphael and Santina Fioranni Michael and Mary A. Connolly Charles H. and Mary A. Quinn Thomas and Rosie Youso James and Mary Holmes Edward and Viola M. Harris Anthony and Sarah J. Connors William A. and Eliza J. Blake G. M. and Mary L. H. Browne Michael and Mary Savage Thomas and Mary Neelon
Chas. M. and Maria L. Choate
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DATE. 1885.
NAME OF CHILD.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
July 22 Annie McGroary,
Aug. 2 Annie Maud Demerritt,
3 Joanna Pickett,
66 9 Gertrude Lillian Anderson,
15 Mary Gertie White,
66 18 Thomas O'Rourke, Jr.,
66 19 Florence Amelia Rogers,
19 William Edward Murphy,
Sept. 5 Carlotta Burdett Williamson
66 9 Annie Brogan,
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20 Frank Feeley,
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25 Alexander Joseph Devine, 26 Jessie Harriet Corbin,
Oct.
5 John Henry Johnson, Jr., 8 Edward Henry McDonald,
66 10 Nellie Winfred Holmes,
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15 Ernest Tingley,
16 Edith Adelaide Pond,
66 16 Alvin Pond Anderson,
66 20 Mary Jane Ward,
66 27 Everett Linwood Stewart, 19 Ruth Eveleth Bean,
Nov.
66 22 Charles Warner Watts,
66 26 Kate Croston,
28 Wm. Erastus Grant
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30 Maude Elizabeth McHugh, 7 Nellie Marr,
Dec.
6. 10 Horatio Edwin Woolford,
10 George Albert O'Claire,
10 Elizabeth Watson Kimball,
21 Sarah Phillips,
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23 Alice Christina Maroney,
66 27 Mary Isabel Trimbel,
66 28 Redelina Cataldo,
C. and Bridget McGroary Henry and Kate Demerritt Michael and Mary Pickett Axel and Wilhelmina Anderson Kate F. White
Thos. and Margaret O'Rourke Fred. A. and Charlotte Rogers Hugh and Isabella Murphy E. R. and Mary E. Williamson Dennis and Maggie Brogan Dennis and Julia Feeley Philip and Mary Devine Charles H. and Evelyn Corbin J. H. and Margaret J. Johnson Henry and Alice E. McDonald Urban and Mary E. Holmes Martin V. and Belle Tingley Alvin D. and Josephine E. Pond · Jennie M. Anderson George and Ellen Ward John J. and Grace L. Stewart Harry P. and Mary E. Bean Simon C. and Cora B. Watts Michael and Ellen Croston Luther and Ida H. Grant Thomas and Kate E. McHugh Michael H. and Nellie L. Marr William F. and Agnes Woolford Nelson and Mary J. O'Claire Henry B.and Minnie A. Kimball Frank and Sarah Phillips
Stephen and Margaret Maroney Andrew and Isabel F. Trimbel Fiore and Lucia Cataldo
Males, 39 ; Females, 41. Total number, 80.
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN FRANKLIN IN 1885.
DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
| AGE.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
Jan. 8 Lewis A. E. Blake, Alice Luella Durfee,
Feb. 15 Andrew Redpath, Euda Nelson,
" 28 Joseph H. Martin, Bessie Morrison,
22 Joseph and Hannah Martin. 16|John and Rosanna Morrison.
24 George W. and Eliza R. Rvan. 22 Charles T. and Sarah F. Wilcox.
May 22 Henry Norman Briggs, 22 Hiram E. and Deborah Briggs. Jennie McGoff, 21 Samuel and Amy A. McGoff.
" 23 George C. Daniels, Eva N. Boyden,
June 7 Henry McDonald, Alice Haley,
28 John and Matilda McDonald. 23 John and Mary Haley.
66 11 Theodore C. Perry, Wilhemina E. Ballou,
24 Wm. L. and Mary E. Perry. 19 Owen E. and Aurelia E. Ballou.
66 18 George Kavanagh, Elizabeth Staples,
" 22 Charles F. Nye, Idella M. Waite.
25 Caleb T. and Sophia B. Nye. 23 Enoch and Amanda M. Waite.
28 Ben. K. and Sarah H. Bennett. 19 Wm. H. and Julia Wales.
. 16 Amos Sanford Wales, Sarah L. Pike,
39 Amos A. and Rhoda W. Wales. 39 Alonzo G. and Martha T. Pike.
25 Stephen S. and Mary J. Nichols. 24 Henry E. and Louisa B. Pond.
27 David and Miriam P. Newcomb. 21 John H. and Emeline T. Jarvis.
31 Wm. and Ellen Coffee.
Sept. 8 James H. Pettis, Bridget D. McCabe,
10 Irwin L. Smith, Hattie A. Wyckoff,
17 George A. A. and - Blake. 18 Nathan M. and Arvilla B. Durfee.
21 James and Anna Redpath. 17 George H. and Ellen Nelson.
April23 George W. Ryan, Jr., Nellie M. Wilcox,
25 Waldo and Helen R. Daniels. 23 J. Lewis and Millie E. Boyden.
32 Patrick and Jane Kavanagh. 30 Albert H. and Ellen Staples.
July 3 Frank H. Bennett, Minnie A. Wales,
Aug. 1 Harry O. B. Nichols, Grace S. Pond,
" 22 Robert Newcomb, Ida F. Jarvis,
31 Timothy Anderson, Hannah A. Fitzpatrick 28 24 John and Maria Pettis. 24 John and Kate McCabe.
20 Abner W. and Frances E. Smith. 18 William A. and Ada L. Wyckoff.
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DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
AGE.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
Oct. 19 Matthew Conlon, Catherine M. Scully,
21 Myron R. Merrifield, Cora E. Stain,
24 Frank B. Wormell, Nellie M. Austin,
Nov. 15 Matthew F. Conroy, Mary E. Murphy,
15 Dennis Brogan, Margaret Murray,
18 Ernest E. Hubbard, Ida M. Field,
25 George S Grattan, Christie A. Hatch,
Dec. 15 William J. Nelson, Esther A. Martin,
16 George W. Hill, Annie E. Blanchard,
" 29 Frank E. Smith, M. Louise Perkins,
23 Charles and Mary Conlon.
20 Michael and Margaret Scully.
22 Alvin T. and Harriet B. Merrifield. 21 David HI. and Catherine Stain.
36 Joshua and Betsy Wormell.
19 Wm. H. and Sarah E. Austin.
23 John and Bridget Conroy.
24 G orge and Ellen Murphy.
27 James and Margaret Brogan.
24 Patrick and Bell Murray.
24 Sabin and Almira Hubbard.
27 Edward H. and Pauline Field.
23 Frederic and Ellen Grattan.
26 Crowell and Agnes Hatch.
21 William H. and Ellen Nelson.
19 Joseph and Hannah Martin.
28 George L. and Sarah J. Hill. 23 Wm. and Sarah Blanchard.
25 Calvin M. and Ann J. Smith. 24 George S. and Martha A. Perkins.
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DEATHS RECORDED IN FRANKLIN IN 1885.
AGE.
DATE.
NAME OF PERSON.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Y.M.D
Oct. 7, 1884
Jennie Louise Holines.
Scalding.
Jan'y 1, '
13
- Finneran.
Stillborn son.
..
17
Ann Allice
Dropsy.
56
19
Mary A. Kennedy
Congenital Stricture.
9
28
Morse ..
Lived but few minutes.
-
30
Katie Connolly
Phthisis.
26
30
Mary Murphy .
Whooping Cough.
4
Peter McMahon
Phthisis.
65
-
-
Gertie Ledbury
Whooping Cough.
1
..
11 Emma T. Pendergast.
Whooping Cough.
87
1(
March
3
Hannah Dean
Old Age.
86
86
10 19
April
17
Elizabeth Harttmann
Apoplexy.
27
17
Harttmann.
Stillborn son.
=
17 Ellen E. Dean
Accident.
50
9 24
=
19
Aurelia E. Ballou
Uterine carcinomatus.
40
4
Old age and exhaustion.
74 1
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26 Letitia L. Pond.
Consumption.
47 10 9
Epilepsy.
-
-
May
3 George N. Fuller
Pneumonia.
26
9 26
.6
16
Susie May Bradley
11
1 15
June
1 Matthias F. Maroney
-
9
5 Elizabeth J. Flynn
52
5 14
. .
19
Aloysins E. Holmes.
Cyanosis.
-
1
July
11
Betsy Alexander.
Heart disease.
6 128
18
Carrie A. Campbell
Consumption.
39
5
25
Fannie Wilkinson.
Paralysis.
65
-
28
Horace Bishop
Heart disease.
63
6
30
George E. Akley
Tuberculosis.
23
-
August
S Ellen (Pierce) Blakney .
30
3 15
14 Olivenne Darwin.
Unknown.
-
6-
.6
15 Caroline Thayer .
Old Age.
79
6 12
26
James H. Kennedy.
Cephalitis.
3
6 16
Septem.
20 Sophia Marsh ..
Insanity.
94
6
28 Abigail Fisher
Typhoid pneumonia.
82
6 25
Cerebral ineningitis.
3
1 -
October
9
Maria R. Fisher
Pneumonia.
59
3 15
November 4
Hannah W. Crowningshield John McNally
Pneumonia.
50
-
5
Mary J. Ward
Congestion.
16
15
Malinda M. Green.
Cancer.
79
6 -
19
Ernest Winfred Browne ... Harry T. Colvin.
Diphtheria.
8 11 16
22
Willard Scott.
Cancerous leg.
84 7
-
23
Alfred L. Bodge
Erisepelas.
46 5
3
26
John W. Metcalf.
Erisepelas.
82
21
6
31
Hugh R. Ferguson
Whooping Congh.
1|18
25 Sally Metcalf.
Typhoid Fever.
19 Roxalana Peck
Pneumonia.
3 Philena Greenwood.
Pneumonia.
61
5
Apoplexia.
56
1
1
23
Lydia Morey.
Pulmonary apoplexy.
64
26 James Griffin.
Cancer.
58
Elizabeth Bellows
Old Age.
75
8
65
5 Hattie A. Trafton
Heart disease.
18
Henry A. Smith ..
Kidney disease.
67
-
-
19 Mary Lundbon.
Phthisis.
62
22 Susannah (Ballou) Brown ..
Old age; oldest in town.
5 Catherine Mahon
Femoral aneurism.
44
21
Martha (Miller) Earl
Softening of brain.
72
Ulcers.
49 -
5
Marasmus.
4 10
December16
Total number, 60. Males, 21 ; females, 39.
1-
Ellen (Shea) Murphy.
Phthisis.
35
22 John L. Fitzpatrick
30 Ada Amelia Campbell.
Phthisis.
Aumor in head.
19 John Mitchell.
Pleurisy.
Consumption.
30 Lizzie Stonefield
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February 3
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF FRANKLIN,
FOR THE YEAR 1885-6.
FRANKLIN : FRANKLIN STEAM PRINTING HOUSE, COTTON'S BLOCK, DEPOT STREET. 1886.
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REPORT.
We assume our annual duty of reporting the progress of the past year, the present condition of our Schools and houses, with the immediate need of improved facilities for carrying out the great purpose for which schools were instituted, with a con- sciousness of the vastness of the responsibilities you have placed in our hands. Did all men see and think alike, then our task were a pleasurable duty ; but when what is success from one man's standpoint is failure in the view of another ; when it is the highest ambition of one set of men to see how cheaply our schools can be run without regard to sanitary conditions or æsthetic surroundings, or even common regard for the material comfort of the pupils; and yet another class that, first of all, without regard to what its money cost might be would ask : Are your surroundings beautiful? Are they calculated to cultivate the eye and thus, through outward vision, penetrate the inner receptacle or ideal with its beauty and re- finement? Are the rooms properly heated and ventilated? not over-crowded with pupils so as to endanger the physical health and material growth of the pupils? If all these conditions are observed they are above price, because they feel that their chil- dren are surrounded not only with the genial influences of bodily health, but all that is necessary to the development of the beautiful and mental elements in child life. Their thought is, if we sow sparingly so shall we reap ; therefore, all is worth its real cost that tends to educate the young in the beautiful, good and true.
With these and other classes, of more or less varying thought as to what constitutes progress or denotes success in the do- main of intellectual culture or school life, constituting our
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constituents is it strange that we are anxious as to results? That we sometimes hesitate to do all that we, in conscience, think should be done? That we wait for your approval before we take decisive and costly steps notwithstanding we have, personally, no doubt they would be in the right direction.
With this feeling we proceed to lay before you some of our needs and wants which we think must be met and supplied before we can possibly give back to you the best possible re- sults for the money you appropriate for school expenses.
First, we believe it is absolutely necessary to make a change in our heating apparatus in the High School building. If we rétain the present method (of not heating) we shall be under the necessity of spending at least $150 for stoves the coming fall to make a show of comfort in the schoolrooms of the building. Nor do we believe that it is possible to get from any stove that we may put into either of the four large rooms in the building sufficient heat to make it even comfortable in all parts of the house or room. The present winter we have been under the necessity of securing large screens to protect those near the stove, while those at a distance were so cold that it was impossible to study with any degree of satisfaction. In fact, our efforts in this direction have been so fruitless that we have taken special pains to visit school houses in other towns to see if we could find a remedy, and, if so, to ascertain, as near as possible, the cost of such heat and how it compared in price with stove heat. After careful inquiry as to the cost of fuel and care of fires in the heat by steam, the cost is at least twenty-five per cent. less than in the old way, and the temper- ature throughout the room is fifty fold more even and pleasant. Therefore, we recommend the town to vote an appropriation at our next March meeting, for the purpose of heating the High School building with steam, and that the whole work of piping and setting of boiler be completed and tested, ready for use, on or before August 20, 1886. We emphasize this rec- ommendation on the threefold basis of health, economy and comfort.
Next, we call your attention to the crowded condition of our schoolrooms in the village. We certainly would not think it "
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prudent or profitable to subject a like number of dumb animals to the same exposures that we do some of our children for lack of school room. We have at least four schoolrooms that are crowded to excess, namely : the Sub-Grammar and Primaries No. 2, 3 and 4. There can be no doubt as to the duty of the town to provide relief in this direction ; and should you fail to meet the necessities of the hour we feel that it would de- volve upon us (however unpleasant the duty) to secure better and more wholesome accommodations for your children. We are not unmindful of the fact that a large per cent. of our tax is raised and appropriated for the support of our schools ; but this is no reason why we should not spend a trifle more on them so as to reap the best possible results. In point of fact, the importance of an education, the cost attending it, the short- ness of time allotted to it by the masses, all demand the best facilities for maintenance of health and bodily vigor. For who does not know that intellectual progress is much effected by the condition of the physical organization through which the mind manifests its development. And more, the future benefit to be derived from school culture, as well as the useful- ness of the future citizen, is often very much limited or ex- panded through the unhealthy or healthy organisms we gradul- uate from our schools. We believe the mental and physical well-being of our children demand two more schoolrooms. We, therefore, recommend the building of a new school house similar in size and construction to the Nason School house.
We further believe, after you have been to the trouble and expense of furnishing all these facilities for the comfort and progress of the children, with free books, it is our duty, through the Truant Officer, to see that every parent in town accepts and improves the privileges presented for the elevation of their children to the position of true citizenship.
This may seem a strange and unnecessary paragraph. We wish it were so, but the experiences and observations of the past year have taught us the sad truth that, in many instances, where you had provided every facility which reason could de- mand for the progress and enjoyment of the pupils, we have been obliged to resort to the State law of compulsory attend-
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ance. In brief, some of these parents seem to think we are very severe and exacting in the partial enforcement of these provisions ; and others plead ignorance of the law in its de- tails, and so excuse themselves on that account. But no plea in extenuation can hide the painful truth, they do not accept the privileges as a value to be cherished but submit to the in- evitable rather than pay the penalty of a violated law.
To avoid all misunderstanding on the part of parents as to their rights and privileges, and the responsibilities it imposes, we quote the law as amended :
Chapter 222, Section I .- "No child under ten years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mer- cantile establishment in this Commonwealth, and no child un- der twelve years of age shall be so employed at any time dur- ing the days in which the public schools are in session in the city or town in which he resides. Any parent or guardian who permits such employment, shall for such offence forfeit not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for the use of the public schools of the city or town."
We think the Legislature acted wisely in so preparing the law that it would reach the principal in the act as well as the second. We hold the parent as the first transgressor in offer- ing the service of the child, while the corporation or individ- ual accepting such service only enters upon a partnership with the parent to wring present gain from the child, although demoralization in the mental status in the child is the unavoid- able result. But the legislative eye was not so blind but what it could see others dealing and speculating in the life treasures of the child's mind. Therefore, they gave us another pro- tective provision which we think it our duty to incorporate in this report. For we have reason to fear that the manufacturer and merchant are not the only class that make merchandise of the child's weakness and cupidity ; that even farmers some- times forget that they are not a privileged class, not amenable to the general restrictions of school law. To the end that all classes may know and practice the right, we insert a law, ap- proved March 11, 1885, chapter 71, entitled :
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An Act to Prevent Truancy .- Whoever, after notice from a truant officer to refrain from so doing, offers a reward for service to any child in consequence of which reward such child is induced unlawfully to absent himself from school ; or, who- ever, after notice as aforesaid, in any manner entices or induces any child to truancy, or whoever knowingly employs or har- bors any unlawful absentee from school, or truant, shall forfeit not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars to the use of the public schools of the city or town in which said offence occurs, to be recovered by complaint."
The above law is all-embracing as well as far reaching. It not only comes home to the careless and indifferent of all classes, merchants, hotel keepers, saloon keepers, news vend- ers and stable men, saying : You must not permit loafing scholars on your premises, except under penalty ; but it comes with power to the vicious scholar whose delight is to entice other pupils less inclined than himself to leave school for the skating rink, or the base ball ground, or some other more questionable resort.
In justice to the old established factories and straw shops, with an exceptional departure in the case of a new superin- tendent, they have exercised due care in not employing any children under sixteen years of age, without the proper certifi- cation of their right so to do; while the less experienced manufacturers have evinced a cheerful willingness to rectify all errors as soon as reminded of their indiscretion. Therefore, for the coming year we have reason to hope for better results in this direction with less labor on the part of the Committee and Truant Officer. Still, we shall not forget we have a duty in this direction.
We now proceed to note more directly the causes which have led to the necessity of a new school house in the village. In the first place, we should have recommended it last year ; but at the time of presenting our report the signs betokened less instead of more scholars than we enrolled the preceding spring for the then coming year. Contrary to our expectation the May registry of 1885 gave us twelve scholars in town in excess of the registry of 1884, and in addition to the actual
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increase in numbers several families, that had heretofore lived within the bounds of the schools outside the centre, changed their residences and thus helped to increase the membership of several of our village schools to that extent that justice and pru- dence forbid the retention of the present arrangements. Our vil- lage schools are constantly increasing in numbers, while the de- crease in what is termed by some the rural schools is painful to those who cherish equal privileges for all ; because, do the best we can for them, still the many vacant seats, the ab- scence of loved ones with whom they started into school life, the ever recurring thought that as a school they have seen their brightest and best days, has a chilling effect upon the most brave and determined heart. Hence the numerous applica- tions for admission to the different schools of the centre of the town. The plea of loneliness and discontent is neither forced or false, but it would only make the desolation the more com- plete to grant these earnest, heartfelt petitions. The only remedy we can see, that will avail anything, is for each and every pupil in these outside schools to do what they can by constant attendance, by cheerful ways and refined manners, by good and prompt recitations, secured through careful and pa- tient study. If they will but try to lose their loneliness in the thought, There is no royal road to learning, even were I sur- rounded with classmates, yet I must take each step, step by step, for myself just as really as I must eat and sleep for the recuperation and development of my physical powers, it would tend through the care and anxiety to be prepared in the domain of general intelligence to be the equals of others more favored by circumstances, to call thought in some degree from the somberness of the present to the possible brightness that awaits them a little farther up in the ascending series of real life.
We will now call your attention to some statistics showing the whole number of children, between 5 and 15 years of age, in town on the first day of May, 1885 ; the whole number that have been enrolled in all the schools during the year ; also, the number that have attended under 5 and over 15 years, so that you can readily see how large a percentage have availed them-
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selves of the benefits of the treasury you have placed within their reach. We say treasury, for if it is not all that word im- plies we are deceiving ourselves and inducing others to con- tribute liberally for base coin. The whole number of children (between the ages of 5 and 15 years) in the town of Franklin on the first day of last May was 796. The whole number en- rolled during the year, 824. Number attending school over 15 years of age, 58. Under 5 years of age, 9. It is not possible for us at present to give the average attendance for the school year of 1885-6 as all of the schools are still in session.
In school expenditures we can be more definite, as the fiscal year is from February first to the same date the following year.
Town appropriation,
$6,500 00 323 06
Dog tax,
State fund,
194 66
$7,017 72
Paid teachers' salaries, $6,080 50
Fuel, 560 76
Care school houses and building fires, 278 39
$6,919 65
Unexpended balance, $98 07
Expended for school books, $708.37 ; appropriation, $600 ; overdrawn, $108.37. For repairs, $363.99 ; appropriation, $400 ; unexpended balance, $36.01. For miscellaneous ex- penses, $300.40 ; appropriation, $300 : overdrawn, 40 cents. Thus, it will be seen that the combined expenditures of all the school work is $25.31 less than the combined appropriations granted.
The question of deepest interest to all concerned is, have we received a fair equivalent for the funds expended? Have the schools made commendable progress in all that pertains to the domain for which these funds were appropriated? In answer- ing this question according to our best judgment, we take into the account not only the lessons learned from books, the thor- oughness of the work in this department, but also in the de- partment of morals and manners. For, let carping critics say
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what they please about the moral influence of public schools. we believe a properly conducted public school is a moral force in the land, more powerful, farther reaching in its influence than any other, except it may be the church of Christ. So im- portant a factor do we consider morality in school education that an unknown applicant for a position as teacher must fur- nish us with proper evidence as to his moral standing before we presume to examine him in the studies he is to teach from books. If the critic assumes lack of moral progress in school as the result of not teaching some particular theory of religion as the basis of moral reform, we leave him with his own re- flections and ask our teachers to inculcate the principle of moral life as an elevating force in the schoolroom, as an acqui- sition that will do much for them in after life as men and women in the faithful discharge of duty to God and man. We do not claim freedom from sectarian bias in theories of religion, but frown upon its introduction as a factor in the schoolroom, or as in any way connected with school work, as a power for either intellectual or moral improvement. We are contented to have clergymen and churches formulate creeds and plat- forms of faith, while it shall be our highest ambition to so cul- tivate and develop the intellectual and moral being of the chil- dren under our charge that in after life they may prove worthy members of society, or any sect with which they may elect to live and love. We believe that the past year has been as plen- tiful in good results, throughout the town, in school work as in any preceeding year. There has been no particular reason' why we should have anticipated any very marked changes in the conduct of the schools, as most of the teachers and all of the committee have worked together for years. The only ad- vantage we held over the past is what the teachers may have gained by experience and observation. We think some of our teachers have accepted the possibilities that came in their way and have been more efficient in their work than in previous years ; but the changes in the character of the schools or the efficiency of the teachers have not been so marked as to require a revised edition of the last definite report we made, nor a new specification of detail work in each school separately. As a
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rule, you may know when a teacher is re-elected to his or her former position that at least a majority of the board have rea- son to believe that a change would not be beneficial.
We conclude our report by inserting the different schools in town, by whom taught, the length of each school, and the sal- ary paid each teacher, and the whole number of scholars each term.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Mary A. Wiggin, Principal ; Ella G. Daniels, Assistant. Length of school (fiscal year, 39) 40 weeks. Salary of prin- cipal, $100 per month ; of assistant, $32 per month. Whole number of scholars: first term, 39; second term, 59; third term, 54.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
S. W. Clark, Teacher. Length of school (fiscal year, 39) 40 weeks. Salary, $60 per month. Whole number of schol- ars : first term, 55 ; second term, 54 ; third term, 52.
SUB-GRAMMAR.
Alice E. Corbin, Principal ; Delia M. Bailey, Assistant. Length of school, 35 weeks. Salary of principal, $50 per month; of assistant, $26 per month. Whole number of scholars : first term, 65 ; second term, 87; third term, 81.
INTERMEDIATE No. 1.
Matie G. Knapp, Teacher. Length of school, 35 weeks. Salary, $40 per month. Whole number of scholars ; first term, 43 ; second term, 48 ; third term, 45.
INTERMEDIATE No. 2.
Emilie Albee, Teacher. Length of school, 35 weeks. Sal- ary, $40 per month. Whole number of scholars : first term, 46 ; second term, 52 ; third term, 53.
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PRIMARY No. 1.
Louisa A. Metcalf, Teacher. Length of school, 35 weeks. Salary, $36 per month. Whole number of scholars: first term, 51; second term. 54; third term, 54.
PRIMARY No. 2.
A. Daisy Dorr, Teacher. Length of school, 35 weeks. Salary, $36 per month. Whole number of scholars: first term, 57; second term, 66 ; third term, 55.
PRIMARY No. 3.
Susie E. Young, Teacher. Length of school, 35 weeks. Salary, $36 per month. Whole number of scholars : first term, 65; second term, 57; third term, 58.
PRIMARY No. 4.
Isabel M. Reilly, Teacher. Length of school, 35 weeks. Salary, $36 per month. Whole number of scholars: first term, 67; second term, 59 ; third term, 66.
CITY MILLS SCHOOL.
Mabel E. Howard, Teacher. Length of school, 35 weeks. Salary, $28 per month. Whole number of scholars : first term, 30 ; second term, 20; third term, 21.
POPULATIC SCHOOL.
C. E. Griffin and M. E. Allen, Teachers. Mr. Griffin taught the first term of 12 weeks, then resigned ; salary, $40 per month. Miss Allen was elected to fill the vacancy. Sal- ary, $32 per month. Length of school, 35 weeks. Whole number of scholars : first term, 36; second term, 37; third term, 34.
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NORTHWEST SCHOOL.
Nellie J. Cleary, Teacher. Length of school, 35 weeks. Salary, $32 per month. Whole number of scholars: first term, 32 ; second term, 29 ; third term, 27.
UNIONVILLE SCHOOL.
Mary Sawyer, Teacher. Length of school, 35 weeks. Sal- ary, $36 per month. Whole number of scholars : first term, 44; second term, 44 ; third term, 40.
SOUTH FRANKLIN SCHOOL.
Isaac C. Jenks, Teacher. Length of school, 35 weeks. Salary, $32 per month. Whole number of scholars : first term, 27; second term, 30; third term, 18.
MOUNT SCHOOL.
Frank A. Everett and Lizzie M. King, Teachers. Length of school, 35 weeks. Mr. Everett taught the first term of 12 weeks, then resigned; and Miss King was elected to fill the vacancy. Salary of teachers, $32 per month. Whole num- ber of scholars: first term, 32; second term, 31; third term, 21.
SUPPLEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Ella G. Daniels, Teacher. This school was formed in the winter term of 1884-5 for the purpose of relieving, in some degree, the Sub-Grammar and Intermediates. It was contin- ued through the winter term of last year and the spring term of the present year in the Baptist vestry. We received notice at the end of the spring term to vacate the premises as the church desired to occupy the rooms. Length of school (fiscal
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year, 16) 12 weeks. Salary, $40 per month. Whole number of scholars, 26.
Respectfully submitted,
G. W. WIGGIN, A. L. CLARK, S. W. SQUIRE, SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
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