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George K. Knowlton, repairs and cash paid out, II 18
taking school census, 10 00
$378 77
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Paid Andrew S. Thomson, $320 00
TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOLARS
Appropriation for transportation of scholars,
$1,300 00
Paid Boston & Maine Railroad Co., $615 05
Boston & Northern Street Ry. Co., 215 00
Frank Dane 220 00
James B. Hart, 25 00
George M. Adams, 19 80
Albert L. Whipple, 8 40
J. F. Tucker, 4 50
Geo. K. Knowlton, paid for scholars' tickets, 5 03
$1,112 78
Balance unexpended,
$187 22
F. C. Norton, schoolroom supplies,
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HIGH SCHOOL ACCOUNT
Appropriation for tuition of scholars,
$2,195 00
Paid City of Beverly, City of Salem, Town of Ipswich,
$1,400 00
575 00
120 00
$2,095 00
Balance unexpended, $100 00
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS
For painting schoolhouses,
$500 00
Paid Alfred T. Poole, paint'g South schoolhouse $170 00
Centre
70 00
66 West 66 50 00
66
East 50 00
extra work, 8 25
Salem News Co., advertising, 2 25
Geo. K. Knowlton, extra time and expense, 3200
$353 50
Balance unexpended, $146 50
INSURANCE
For insurance of school houses, $50 00
Paid W. F. Trowt, agent, 52 50
Exceeding appropriation, $2 50
This insurance is placed as follows :
On Centre schoolhouse,
$ 900 00
North
700 00
West
700 00
East
700 00
$3,000 00
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In the Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Cambridgeport, Mass., $1,500 00
In the Dorchester Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Boston, Mass., 1,500 00
Full amount of insurance, $3,000 00
For three years-from May 12, 1904 to May 12, 1907.
GROSS RECEIPTS FOR ALL SCHOOL PURPOSES
Appropriation for schools in town, $5,400 00
tuition High School scholars, 2,195 00
transportation of scholars, 1,300 00 Special appropriations, 550 00
Dog licenses, 279 57
From state on account of Superintendent, 250 00
City of Boston, tuition for scholars, 20 00
$9,994 57
GROSS EXPENSE FOR ALL SCHOOL PURPOSES
Paid for teachers,
Care of school houses,
$3,849 60 465 00
Fuel, 509 89
School supplies, 546 14
Miscellaneous, 378 77
Superintendent of Schools,
320 00
Tuition High School pupils,
2,095 00
Transportation of scholars,
1,112 78
Painting schoolhouses, 353 50
Insurance, 52 50
$9,683 18
Balance unexpended,
$311 39
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PUPILS ATTENDING HIGH SCHOOLS For the year ending June, 1905 BEVERLY Tuition per pupil, $50.00 To graduate June, 1905
Bernice J. Andrews
Sylvia Robinson
Clara E. Chandler
Hazel E. Weston
Lillian A. McGlauflin
Helen H. Dodge
Gertrude K. Weston
Clara D. Haraden
May C. Wright
Mabel L. Peterson
Bertha M. Durkee
Myra A. Sawyer
Leverett L. Durkee
Rua A. Chandler
John P. Smith
Charita W. Vennard
Ella W. Chandler
Catherine J. McDonald
Annie F. Crosby
Elsie M. Peterson
Mary E. Potter
Ernest S. Berry
Elizabeth A. Robinson
Wallace H. Knowlton
Rosetta P. Jones
Joseph L. Roberts
Arthur M. Cummings
Finlay D. McDonald
Chester B. Gibney
George I. Dodge
Bligh C. McGlauflin
Mercy G. Abbott
Frank H. Tuck
Arthur E. Radmore
Edward S. Vennard
Edward H. Haraden
Martha W. Dodge
Harry W. Smith Lawrence E. Striley
Richard H. Hichens, first half of year Elizabeth M. Babcock 66
Ethel E. Crocker, last half of year
SALEM Tuition per pupil, $50.00
Laura M. Goodridge Myrtle A. Small
Nellie C. Goodridge Lester M. Whipple
Florence W. Goodridge
Walter E. Cheever
Mae E. Schaller Morley E. Hollingshead, first half of year
IPSWICHI Tuition $40.00 Randall E. Adams
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ESTIMATE FOR SCHOOLS
Following is an estimate of the amount of money that will be needed for all public school purposes for the year 1905-6 :
For Town Public schools. $5,455 00
Pupils attending High school, 2,500 00 .
Transportation of scholars, 940 00
$8,895 CO
REPORT OF TRUANT OFFICER
To the School Committee of Hamilton :
Gentlemen :- In submitting my report as Truant Officer I have to say that I have attended to sixteen cases of truancy in the South School district including Asbury Grove and the Golf Grounds.
Respectfully submitted, J. C. UNDERHILL,
Truant Officer.
Hamilton, Feb. 13, 1905.
SCHOOL CENSUS
Whole number of children in town between
5 and 15 years of age, September 1, 1904, Boys 146 Girls 136
282
Between 7 and 14 years of age,
Boys
102
Girls
97
Whole number September 1, 1904,
282
1 99
66 1, 1903, 255
Increase of scholars
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SCHOOL CALENDAR 1905-1906
March 10.
All schools close for Spring vacation. Thirteen weeks in term
March 20.
All schools open for Spring term.
June 16.
All schools close for Summer vacation. Thirteen weeks in term Summer vacation All schools open for Fall term. All schools close for Thanksgiving vacation.
September 3.
November 29.
. Thirteen weeks in term
December 4.
All schools open for Winter term.
January I.
All schools open.
All schools close for Spring vacation. Thirteen weeks in terin
March 26.
June 15.
All schools open for Spring term. All schools close for Summer vacation.
In making our annual report we are pleased to record a year of progressive work in the schools. Superintendent and com- mittee have been fully cognizant of the necessity of hard work during the year on the part of both teachers and pupils.
At the opening of the school year the committee decided that all scholars in the grammar school in the ninth grade be required to qualify for Beverly tentli grade.
Any scholars failing in this will not be graduated but may rentain in the school another year.
This course is necessary for our scholars to graduate from Beverly High School in four years. But it demands some strenuous preparation, especially in the ungraded schools, to accomplish this work.
Attention is called to the increase in the number of children of school age, as shown by the last school census. Should there
December 15.
All schools close for Christmas vacation.
March 16.
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be an approximate increase during the next few years it will be absolutely necessary to make an addition to the Southi school building or to erect a High school building that could be used for all scholars above the eighth grade.
At the present time the outlook seems to indicate a continued increase in the population of the town, and consequently the probable necessity for enlarged school accommodations at no very distant day.
Four school houses, outbuildings and fences have been painted and the West school buildings have also been shingled, so that all the school property is now in good condition and will need no material outlay during the present year.
A small amount of money can very wisely be used in putting in an additional water tank in the South school house as the one now in use is too small for the needs of the building. The committee would recommend an appropriation of $100.00 for this purpose.
For the work and condition of the schools in detail reference is made to the report of the Superintendent.
GEORGE K. KNOWLTON,
School JESSE G. NICHOLS,
EVERETT A. SMITH, Committee.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
GENTLEMEN OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE:
I have the honor to submit to you my third annual report as superintendent of schools. This report will consist in giving an account of theyear's work and in suggesting work which will be for the advancement and progress of the schools of the town. It is well to keep in mind that the statistical tables of attendance ale for the school year ending last June, but the general report takes up the work of the calendar year ending last December.
Last June closed a remarkably successful year in our school work. There were eighteen pupils graduated from our grammar school, fourteen of whom were recommended to enter the tentli grade at Beverly. The few who were not prepared for this grade entered the ninth. Every pupil who goes into the tenth grade saves the town a year's tuition and transportation. An examina- tion of the record which our pupils have made so far indicates that we shall be able to prepare our pupils for Beverly's tenth grade and thus have them complete the high school course in four years. Our greatest difficulty is with pupils who come from the district schools to the ninth grade. It is next to impossible to prepare the average pupil in the district schools as well as we can in the better graded school in the south end of the town. A few bright pupils will always be found in district schools who will progress rapidly without much individual assistance from the teacher, in fact these may gain self reliance by what would be the average pupil's discouragement and detriment. But by far the larger proportion of the pupils need the personal attention of their teacher which cannot be given in a school of many grades. It seems to mne wise wherever it can be done with economy to trans- port the eighth grade pupils to the South school. It is economy
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to do this if we can prepare them to enter the tenth rather than the ninth grade. I am positive that this can be done with pupils who have the better facilities of the South School for two years.
There is another difficulty which is urging itself upon the town1. The South School building is becoming very much over crowded. The primary room, in which are taught the first and second grades, has numbered over fifty pupils all the year, which necessitated the employment of an assistant teacher who has used the basement and halls as class rooms. This is not a satisfactory arrangement but it offers the only relief possible. Although the Grammar room, in which are taught the eighth and ninth grades, is not full there is not space to put the seventh comfortably in this roo11, and moreover if we could do so this arrangement would be a serious mistake as it would overcrowd the room and hamper the grammar teacher in her already difficult task of preparing pupils for the high school. Every other room in the building is filled to its capacity.
The need of the south end of the town for increased schcol accommodation and the large expense to which the town is put by sending pupils out of town to High School has brought out the question. "Would it be wise for Hamilton to have a high school of its own?" Some of the advantages and disadvantages of a local high school may well be pointed out. If we had a high school of our own we could not hope to have so expensively and amply equipped a building as Beverly's or Salem's. Those schools have physical and chemical laboratories which cost several thousand dollars. Their means of teaching the commercial branches are elaborate and expensive. They have high salaried and experienced teachers. The argument however is not all on that side. Hamilton could have good teachers and have a fairly well equipped school when the building was once constructed for the money it is now paying. A high school in a town gives a certain caste to a town, lends local interest, and arouses public spirit. Pupils give their loyalty and interest to the town in which they
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are educated. Likewise this would avoid attending evils of so much travelling on cars and trains.
PROGRESS
The people of the town can look with a good deal of pride upon their schools. There have come to my attention many commendatory remarks by strangers who have visited our schools. A member of the State Board of Education who visited our schools spoke with praise of the work of our teachers and the equipment of our schools A step in advance has been made this year in the work of drawing. This work is now being systematized and enthused by a special teacher of drawing. We were fortunate in securing a teacher who can supervise both drawing and music.
READING
The comprehensive system of reading is being used by most of the teachers. This system does away with the excessive use of diacritical marks of the former system and in their place the rules which govern the sound of letters are given. The children are thus able to get new words unassisted. The articulation of the children has improved and there has been a gain in fluency. We have increased our supply of reading material considerably and are now well equipped with historical and geographical readers. There is still a need of some good literature for the higher grades. We aim to inculcate a taste for good reading and the Town Library has assisted materially in this excellent work by buying and loaning to the teachers the proper reading material for the use of the children.
GEOGRAPHY
The tendency of the study of geography has shifted of late years from a description of the earth's surface to the study of man
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and the earth as his abiding place. The great aim of geography is threefold : to increase an appreciation of man's customs and conditions ; to infuse a knowledge of natural obstacles to be over- come and resources to be discovered before nature's laws can be made useful to man : to cultivate the ability to locate places, noted and interesting because of their contribution to history, science or art. We have based our course of study upon the old principle to "proceed from the known to the unknown," so that the child studies geographically, historically and politically, first his home town, then his state, his country, his continent, his hemisphere, the world as a whole. Instead of trying to memorize the names of all mountains, rivers and cities, a detailed study of a few places is made and these are considered as typical of others. To make these types more vivid the imagination should be assisted by specimens, pictures, maps, map drawing and geographical readers. Our work in geography has been much strengthened by the use of Carpenter's Geographical Readers to supplement the text books.
PENNY SAVINGS
Last spring the W. C. T. U. started the Penny Savings System in the South School. This is a work that should be en- couraged and promoted by parents and teachers. Mrs. S. W. Barrett, who was appointed to visit the schools and receive the pennies has kindly made a report which I incorporate with pleasure in this report.
TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS,
DEAR SIR :- In presenting the report of the School Savings System I wish to explain the fact that owing to delays, the be- ginning of the experiment in the South Hamilton district was not at the opening of the school year as its promoters desired, but in April at the opening of the spring term. The enthusiasm which was so marked in the early weeks of that term was interrupted by the summer vacation.
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In the estimation of its friends the experiment has proved a success, and might well be followed in every district of the town. Thanks are due to the teachers for the attention and courtesy given to the Superintendent and their co-operation in her plans. Most of the work has been done by the first four grades and fully two-thirds of money withdrawn has been deposited in banks. The following financial statement will show the results :
Money invested by W. C. T. U.
Expense
$ 15.00 4.13
Total
$ 19.13
Number of depositors
II4
Amount deposited
$ 127.71
Respectfully,
S. W. BARRETT.
Hamilton, Jan. 21, 1905.
CHANGE OF TEACHERS
There were few changes in our corps of teachers last summer. Miss Effie E. Beal, who had so ably and energetically taught the South Grammar School, resigned at the close of the school year in June. The committee were very desirous of retaining Miss Beal's services but did not feel that they could pay the increase of salary to keep her. Miss Boynton, a Normal gradu- ate and a teacher of experience, was secured for the school and is meeting with good success. Miss Nellie Cutting of the East School is out at present on a year's leave of absence to attend Salem Normal School. Miss Foster of Weymouth has been hired for the East School during the present year. Mrs. Eva Robinson, our music teacher, was unable to take charge of the music this year and Miss Julia Goldman of Salem is supervising both music and drawing.
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TEACHERS' MEETINGS
During the fall union teachers' meetings of the teachers of Ham- ilton and Wenham were held weekly at the South School build- ing. Besides discussion upon regular school work a study of the History of Education was taken up. The lively interest and active participation of the teachers in these meetings speaks well of their ability and ambition.
I wish to express my thanks and appreciation to the teachers for their responsiveness to suggestion and fidelity to their work; and to the committee for their businesslike manner of conducting school affairs and their kindly consideration in all personal deal- ings.
Respectfully submitted, ANDREW S. THOMSON, Superintendent of Schools.
Report of the Supervisor of Drawing
Hamilton, Feb. 1, 1905. TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS :
The work in drawing, or more broadly speaking the study of art, was introduced into the schools only a few months ago. It is very gratifying indeed to note the interest and enthusiasm that accompanies the successive lessons from week to week. This is in itself a sufficient proof that the art training is a very important factor in the education of the child.
It not only gives the pupil an added power of expresion, for drawing is as truly a language as the written or spoken word,
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but also enrichies the life of the individual by revealing to him the beauty of color and form in a way that no other study can.
In the higher grades, during the last few weeks, special lessons on applied design have been given and the work is still in progress. The purpose of tliese lessons is to lead to an apprecia- tion of beauty in arrangement of lines and masses, and also to stimulate the inventive faculties of the student. The few elemen- tary lessons on color which preceded this work was also applied to the lessons on design.
The work planned for the various schools for the present year was outlined to include as broad a course as possible. Draw- ing is studied under these three topics :- structure, enrichment and appearance; ( r) structure, comprising measurment, geometry, projection, development, and structural design; (2) enrichment, including color, historic ornament and design; 3) appearance con- sisting of model and object drawing, nature drawing, color and picture study.
It is to be regretted that the lack of necessary material pre- vents the carrying out of all these branches of the subject. The schools are very much in need of better brushes and water colors. A small collection of artistic pottery, for use in the free hand object drawing, has also been suggested to the superintendent and members of the committee.
One of the great values of the study of art in the schools, is found in its relation to the other branches of the school curriculum, nature study, literature, history, science, etc. It is only right that we should always keep the highest ideals before the students from childhood to youth to instill a love and appreciation of the beautiful and true, and thus uplift and enoble the character of the individual and enrich his whole life.
I wish to thank the superintendent for his untiring efforts in securing the proper equipment for the work and for his interest in establishing this course of study in the schools. To the members of the committee. I also wish to tender thanks for their kind support and active interest in the work. My relations with the
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teachers have been of the most cordial character, and I wish to ex- press my appreciation of the faithful and cheerful way in which my suggestions have been carried out.
Respectfully submitted, JULIA GOLDMAN, Supervisor of Drawing.
Report of the Supervisor of Music
Hamilton, Feb. 1, 1905.
TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS :
Though I have had the pleasure of supervising the work in Music for only a few months, I am free to say without reserve that notwithstanding the excellent condition in which I found the work the interest and progress is steadily increasing.
The series of music readers and charts that are in present use in the various schools are good, but need to be supplemented by new material. This would give more life, a keener interest in the work, and a greater variety, which is so indispensable a feature in any good course of study.
I am glad to say that there is a marked improvement in the tone quality, and in the facility to read music at sight. In pre- senting the principles of time, tone and technique, the aim has been to employ such principles of musical theory as would not only facilitate the reading of music, but inspire artistic song sing- ing, and also promote that keener enjoyment of the art which comes only through an understanding of the principles under- lying it.
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The ends to be secured by the teaching of music in the schools have been no better set forth than by a certain leading musical reader in a recent article. He formulates the proposition as follows :
"To develop and make permanent the fundamental cognitions upon which the mature enjoyment of music depends, such as rhythm, tonality, intensity, tone-quality, and the inner realization of melodic beauty and harmonic force.
To form emotional habits congenial to culture, through the frequent experience of moods characteristics of the soul's best moments, masterly expressed by poet and composer.
To open to the young the worid of song, by sympathetic ex- perience of the songs sung during school life, and by complete technical mastery of the written language of music, whereby the whole world of melodic beauty is opened for a life-time possession.
To give honored place in the pantheon of immortals to the names and ideals of those who have most blessed their fellow men through the medium of the art of music; such as Mozart, Men- delsohn, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Handel, Hayden, etc."
I herewith wish to thank the Superintendent and members of the Committee for their active interest in the work and for their generous support. To the teachers of the various schools, whose keen interest and hearty co-operation has made such progress possible, I also tender sincere thanks.
Respectfully submitted,
JULIA GOLDMAN, Supervisor of Music.
TEACHERS, SALARIES, SCHOOLS, ETC. September, 1904
Name
School
Grade
Salary
Where Educated
Miss Boynton
South Grammar
$600
Salem Normal
Mary E. Bachelder
South Intermediate
V, VI and VII
500
High Sch. and Summer Sch.
Eva C. Sanborn
So. Upper Primary
Ill and IV
425
Sanborn Seminary
Carrie E. Robie
South Primary
I and II
380
Lancaster Academy
Annie W. Chase
Center School
I-VIII
380
Framingham Normal
Grace C. Stone
North School
I-VIII
380
Ipswich High School
Grace Omne
West School
1- VIII
380
Quincy Training School
Gertrude Foster
East School
I -
No, enrolled
No. boys
No. girl-
Average
Average
Average per
ct. attendance
No. between
No. between
. and 14
No. over 15
No. under 3
South Grammar
C
7
30
15
15
20)
27
95
19
13
11
()
South Intermediate
9
1
of
12
28
39
37
9.5
South Upper Primary
1
39
19
20
36
34
93
39
39
()
0
Sonth Primary
9
1
57
32
25
49
91
56
17
()
I
North School
23
15
2.4
22
92
23
20
()
O
East School
()
19
12
7
17
16
90
16
()
O
West School
9 12
20)
1.1
15
23
21
90
29
26
()
()
Center School
9 7
25
1 4
-
18
16
91
25
1 7
()
Total
262
133
129
2.45
217
92
250
188
11
1
380
Weymouth High School
School Attendance
for the year
day .
1903 and 1904.
Months and
enrolled
enrolled
membership
attendance
5 and 15
()
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ROLL OF HONOR
The numbers indicate the number of terms the pupils have not been absent or tardy.
SOUTH GRAMMAR
Frank Burton 2
Percy Burton
I
Ella Chandler
I
Myrtle Small
I
Frank Day
2
Mary Wright 2
Martha Dodge
2
Hepsy Roberts I
Bertha Durkee I
Frank Tuck I
Mary Potter 2
HAMILTON CENTER
Gordon Gren
Ida Adams I
Lawrence Adams I
Elsie Adams I
Helen Sweeney 2
Thayer Haraden I
Ralph Haraden I
Martha Cool I
EAST SCHOOL
Martha Berry 2
Ralph Berry 2
Joseph Tucker I
SOUTH PRIMARY
Harold Dodge I
Margaret Sculley 2
Charles Dodge I
Mary Sculley I :
Clara Frear 2 Helen Smith I
Waldic Kolosky 1
Marion Smith 2
John McGinley I
James Spencer T
Daniel McGinley I
Myrtle Tinkham 1
Alice Hallett I Austin Miller I Gertrude McGarry - Freda Eckert I
Gustaf Şanliner
George Sonia Į
Mabel Upham I Alice Colesworthy 2
Elizabeth Robinson I
Mae Schaller
2
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NORTH SCHOOL
Harry Blaisdell 2
Ralph Wright I
Harold Stone I Nellie Evans 2
John E. Cox I
Francis W. Dane I
SOUTH SECOND PRIMARY
Florence Cummings
I
Norman Gibney I
Clarine Gibney
2
Ralph Hayes
I
Lizzie Dodge
I
Dortha Smith
2
Wendall Hall
I
Olive Conrad I
Thomas Jones
I
Ruth Cross I
Furber Libby
2
Mary Sanlnier I
Willie McGarry I
SOUTH INTERMEDIATE
Marian Jones I
Ruby Hayes I
Florence Schaller
1
Martha Cross
I
Ritchie Small
I
Evelyn Gould CI
Elenor Peterson I
Eleanor Robinson
Pauline Chandler I Romie Mears 2
Rufus Barrett
I
#Dorothy Libby
3
Star indicates that pupil has not been tardy.
Lester Durkee I
Agnes Wright I
Margaret Faherty 1
PUBLIC LIBRARY
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND LIBRARIAN
The trustees are glad to report steady progress. More books and magazines have been issued than in any previous year, the number approximating eight thousand. The loan-libraries for the public schools have been continued, the pupils thereby gain- ing a knowledge of the best literature under the direction of the teachers. All the publishing houses are issuing collections of the classics, especially for children, as well as elementary books in history, the arts and sciences. There is no more important work for the Library to perform than to supplement the work of the public schools in this way. The number of books added for adults has been about equally divided between fiction and works of biography, history, travel and religion.
The reading room has been well patronized at all times. Twenty-five of the most popular weeklies and monthlies have appeared regularly on the tables. Any magazine or periodical may be taken from the Library after the next regular issue has appeared. New books may be retained one week, instead of three, as formerly, and the librarian may refuse to issue more than one new book to one household.
As in former years the Woman's Education Society of Boston has loaned collections of photographs which have proved to be instructive to a large number. A framed copy of the Massachu- setts exhibit of Public Library buildings at the St. Louis fair
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has been purchased for the reading room. There is room on our walls for works of art of permanent value.
Through the courtesy of Mr. Otis F. Brown the Library has received the "Book of Records of the Hamilton Second Social Library, Commenced February 10, 1817." This book of unusual interest contains the Constitution, rules and regulations, roll of subscribers, catalogue of books, and a record of books withdrawn by each individual. The Public Library may well be the depos- itory of records, manuscripts and other works of antiquity of permanent value to this town.
The special needs of the coming year are the addition of a few more books of reference; the principal works of some American and English authors, whose works are not on our shelves, the binding of magazines of permanent value, the re-binding of a large number of worn volumes, the completion of the card-cata- logue to date, and the preparation of a finding-list. To accom- plish this work the Librarian will need considerable assistance, and the trustees will be obliged to draw on the surplus which they have saved for such a contingency. As the Library in- creases in size and worth, more money will be required to maintain its efficiency.
The Trustees take this opportunity to thank those who have made valuable gifts to the Library during the year, a list of which may be found in the Librarian's report, and Mr. Horace E. Andrews, for the use of his store as a delivery station.
An appropriation of four hundred dollars is recommended for the ensuing year.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
STATISTICS
Total number of volumes, March 1904
3357
added 224
March, 1905 3581
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Number of Volumes of fiction issued during year 5519
66
history 66 266
biography 66
I31
miscellaneous" 628
Total number of volumes
6544
Number of magazines I 104
Total number of bound volumes and magazines
7648
Number of cards issued during year 16 " since Library opened 1263
60
Fines collected during year
GIFTS
Bound Pamphlets and Volumes Unbound Volumes
State Massachusetts, Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution I
Dedication of Hooker Statue I
Public Documents-Journals, Acts and Re- solves, Revised Laws 4
Trial of John C. Best 1
First Regiment of Infantry Mass. Volunteer Militia I
U. S. Gov. Reports,
Interstate Commerce Com. I
Report of Directors of Mint 1
Report of Board of Education I
Manual General Court I
Report of Smithsonian Institution I
N. E. Hist. Gen. Soc., Vital Records 15
Hon. A. P. Gardner 7
Frank H. Brailey, The Secret of Success I
Mrs. G. K. Knowlton, The New Voice, I year
52
Mr. R. L. Agassiz, Unbound Novels 21
Mr. O. F. Brown, Parcel of Magazines 9
Mass. Public Reports 3
Miscellaneous 2 2I
GRACE C. STONE, Librarian.
66
$3.07
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TREASURER'S REPORT
AUGUSTUS P. GARDNER, in account with Trustees of Public Library of Hamilton, Mass.
DR.
1904
Balance to credit of Library Trustees, March Ist, 1904 $276 85
1905
Feb. 10. Received from Daniel E. Safford, Treasurer, amount appropriated at annual Town Meeting for 1904 400 00
2I. Received from Grace C. Stone, amount of fines 3 07
$679 92
CR.
1904
Mar. 18. Paid Warrant No. I Pilgrim Press, books $27 83
J. L. Hammett Co.
$8 67
J. L. Hammett Co.
3 56
12 23
Houghton, Mifflin Co., books
5 73
The Outlook Co., magazine 3 00
The MacMillan Co., magazine I 00
$49 79
June 4. Paid Warrant No. 2
J. G. Nichols, sundries
$ 5 04
The Derby Desk Co., office furniture 13 50
Citizen Printing Co., printing 4 65
Charles H. Odell, insurance 45 00
American Book Co., books
7 58
American Book Co., books 48
Christian Work and Evangelist 1 00
Grace C. Stone, librarian
25 00
$102 25
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July 5. Paid Warrant No. 3 Almy, Bigelow & Washburn, books $37 50
A. B. & W., cr. 4 35
33 15
P. K. Foley, books
3 50
Pilgrim Press, books
31 79
Miss H. A. Dodge, books 4 45
$72 89
Sept. 24. Paid Warrant No. 4 Almy, Bigelow & Washburn, books
$ 2 00
E. L. Perley, binding 22 00
E. L. Perley, 66
14 40
Grace C. Stone, librarian
25 00
Dec. 10. Paid Warrant No. 5
Harris' Express
$ 2 25
Grace C. Stone, librarian
25 00
Geo. H. Bartlett, library map 50 Richardson & Northey, insurance 15 00
1905
$42 75
Feb. 14. Paid Warrant No. 6 Pilgrim Press, books
$31 55
A. C. Cummings, transportation 22 50
J. G. Nichols, sundries I 90
Grace C. Stone, librarian
25 00
The Outlook Co., magazine 3 00
The MacMillan Co., magazine
1 00
$84 95
$416 03
Balance to credit of Library Trustees
263 89
$679 92
E. & O. E. AUGUSTUS P. GARDNER, Treasurer of Trustees.
Hamilton, Mass., March Ist, 1905.
Respectfully submitted,
JESSE G. NICHOLS, Trustees
AUGUSTUS P. GARDNER, of the
GEORGE V. L. MEYER, Public Library.
$63 40
WARRANT FOR THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
ESSEX, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Hamilton, GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you ar directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Ham ilton qualified to vote in the elections and in Town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall, in said Town, on Tuesday, the fourteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and five, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz :
Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting
Art. 2. To choose all necessary Town Officers for year ensuing.
Art. 3. To hear the reports of the Town Officers and act thereon.
Art. 4. Shall licenses be granted in the Town of Hamilton for the sale of intoxicating liquors for the year ensuing ?
Art. 5. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will appropriate a suml of money for the suppression of the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money not to exceed fifty ($50.00) dollars for the purpose of observing Decoration day by the soldiers of the Rebellion.
Art. 8. To appropriate money for the repairs of higliways, townways and bridges, and all other Town expenses, and to determine the manner of spending the same.
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Art. 9. To see what action the Town will take toward hanging the name of Highland Avenue to Beacon Street, as roposed by the Selectmen.
Art. 10. To see what action the Town will take toward hanging the name of Hopkins Street to Miles River Road, as proposed by the Selectmen.
Art. II. To see what action the Town will take toward changing the name of Willowdale Street to Winthrop Road, as proposed by the Selectmen.
Art. 12. To see if the Town will concur with the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners in the proposed change in the boundary line between the towns of Hamilton and Wenham, as ecommended by said Board, or take any action thereon.
Art. 13. To see what action the Town will take toward establishing a street light at the corner of Pleasant and Elliot Streets, and appropriate a sum of money, as petitioned for by Fred P. Killham and others.
Art. 14. To see what action the Town will take toward putting in a larger water tank in the South School House, and appropriate a sum of money, as petitioned for by Fred C. Schaller and others.
Art. 15. To see what action the Town will take toward furnishing and setting an edge stone on Railroad Avenue from Main Street to Willow Street, and appropriate a sum of money, as petitioned for by S. C. Gould and others.
Art. 16. To see what action the Town will take toward the acceptance of Sections 42 and 43 of Chapter 49, Revised Laws, Acts, Concerning the Construction of Sidewalks and to assess the abuttors one-half the cost thereof.
Art. 17. To see what' action the Town will take toward the acceptance of Section 26, Chapter 91, of the Revised Laws and subsequent amendments thereto, an act to provide for the Protection of Fish in Ponds.
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Art. 18. To see what action the Town will take toward exterminating the Brown Tail Moth, and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 19. To see what action the Town will take toward fixing the Salary of the Town Officials.
Art. 20. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer to hire money, under the direction of the Selectmen, in anticipation of taxes.
Art. 21. To see if the Town will authorize the Collector to use all means of collecting taxes, which a Town Treasurer, when appointed Collector, may use, agreeable to Chapter 25, Section 75, of the Revised Laws.
Art. 22. To determine what time tax bills shall be issued and taxes become due.
Art. 23. . To see if the Town will accept the list of jurors as proposed and posted by the Selectmen
Art. 24. And to act on any other matter that may legally come before said meeting.
And you are hereby directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof, one at the Meeting House, one at the Town Hall, and one at the store of L. E. Libby in said Town, seven days at least before the time of said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of holding said meeting. Given under our hands this twenty- eighth day of February, 1905, A. D.
ISAAC F. KNOWLTON, 2. Selectmen of GEORGE H. GIBNEY, 1 Hamilton.
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