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1 00
66
6! Justus W. Emerson,
1 00-$31 30
Ward 4. Paid Nathaniel Abbott,
6 00
66
Geo. L. Hawkes, 7 30
5 00
66
Geo. J. Mansfield,
1 80
6
D. Edward Mansfield,
1 00
66
Benjamin S. Young,
1 00
66
66 F. Newhall,
1 20-$23 30
Ward 5. Paid Benjamin Cox, Jr., 4 75
66 Thomas E. Cox,
2 00
6
Francis P. Russell,
1 00
66 Warren Newhall,
1 40
66
66 Wm. R. Roundy,
60-$ 9 75
Paid Borrowed money,
$ 1,650 00-$ 1,650 00
66 A. A. Newhall,
9
INTEREST MONEY.
Paid Mehitabel Skinner,
$30 00
66
Martha Brown's heirs
60 00
Henry Bancroft, 39 69
M. A. Bancroft,
21 00
John Danforth, '
5 83
Geo. L. Hawkes,
1 00-$157 52
CEMETERY EXPENSES.
FOREST HILL. 1
Paid L. S. Russell, setting posts in 1871, $1 50
Seth Merrow, labor, 12 00 .
William R. Roundy, labor,
4 00-$17 50
OLD BURYING GROUND.
Paid Thos. R. Newhall, building wall, $121 40
Andrew Timon, labor, 7 00
Alexander Nelson, labor, 21 00-$149 40
WEST BURYING GROUND.
Paid Thos. R. Newhall, gate posts, $44 00
Wm. R. Roundy, grading in front, 7 40
Dixey Wilkins, rebuilding wall, 21 00
J. Danforth, labor and materials, 2 50
Benjamin Perkins, labor,
2 60
Alexander Nelson, labor, 3 30
Andrew Timon, labor,
2 00-$82 80
SOUTH BURYING GROUND.
Paid A. A. Newhall, mowing lot, 5 00-$5 00
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TOWN OFFICERS.
Paid William R. Roundy, services as
Collector and Treasurer, $75 00
John Danforth, services as Town Clerk, 15 00
" as Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of Poor, 94 00
recording and indexing births, marriages and deaths, 6 50
66 making official returns, 10 00
preparing Annual Report, 10 00
George L. Hawkes, Selectman, Asses-
sor, and Overseer of Poor, 50 00
William Skinner, Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of Poor, 24 00
Jacob Hood, services as Sch. Com., 25 00
Albert Mansfield, services as Sch. Com., 22 00
Emily P. Coney, services as Sch. Com., 19 00
Samuel Harding, services as Constable, 8 00
Wm. R. Roundy, return of deaths, 50
Daniel Mansfield, return of deaths, 40-$359 40
STATE AID.
Paid Harriet E. Hewes, $96 00
George N. Whiting, 84 00
Robert S. Henfield, guardian, 48 00
Sarah R. Wiley,
48 00
Isaac H. Mitchell, 18 00-$294 00
ABATEMENTS.
On tax list of 1867, $20 07; of 1870, $1 18;
of 1871, $43 50; of 1872, $62 71; $127 46
Paid Taxes refunded to Hannah S. Bancroft, by a vote of the town, 34 09-$34 09
Paid State Tax for 1872, $960 00-$960 00
County Tax for 1872, 659 50-$659 50
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MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.
Paid A. F. Williams, services as auctioneer, and printing bills for sale of wood on cemetery lot, $7 00
Wakefield Fire Engine Companies for services, 100 00
Wm. R. Roundy, hauling Fire Engine to Wakefield, 3 00
J. Danforth, refreshments furnished firemen. 15 96
A. A. Foster, printing card of thanks in Wakefield Banner, 1 25
Special Police, for services, 9 00
Chas. K. Darling, stationery and blank books, 3 53
Foote & Horton, printing Annual Report 1871, 57 31
Foote & Horton, certificates of lots in Willow Cemetery,
5 50
Foote & Horton, collector's tax bills, 3 75
66 warrants for town meetings, 6 87
“ orders, dog licenses &c., 11 06
66 adv. sale of land for taxes, 3 00
Estate of H. Bancroft, book-case,
12 00
Samuel Harding, ringing bell in Centre of town, 30 00
Byron Richardson, ringing bell in South part of town, 30 00
Samuel Harding, care of Town Hall, 3 50
repairing road scraper, 50
Geo. W. Henfield, blacksmith work, 7 95
66 66
work on hearse, 4 50
Benjamin Perkins, repairs on Town Hall, 3 39 J. Danforth, postage and expressage, 6 50-$325 57
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EXPENSES.
North School.
Paid Sarah A Weston, teaching Spring term,
11 weeks, at $8.00 per week, $88 00
Sarah A. Weston, teaching Fall term, 12 weeks at $8.00 per week, 96 00
H. E. Perkins, teaching Winter term, 15 weeks, at $8,00 per week, 120 00
Seth Merrow, wood, and preparing same, 22 75
Asa T. Putnam, wood, 23 44
Clarence Cook, care of school room, 13 25-$363 44
South School.
Paid Mary A. Gustin, teaching Spring term,
11 weeks, at $10,00 per week, $110 00
Mary A. Gustin, teaching Fall term, 13 weeks, at $10,00 per week, 130 00
Mary A. Gustin, teaching Winter term, 14 weeks, at $10. per week, 140 00
Albert Mansfield, wood, and preparing same, 62 25
E. Oscar Swan, care of school room,
13 00- 455 25
Centre Schools.
Paid H. N. Wood, teaching grammar school, Spring term, 11 wks, at $10. per wk, $110 00 M. A. Lawlor, teaching primary school, Spring term, 12 wks, at $9. per wk. 108 00 H. N. Wood, teaching grammar school, Fall term, 13 wks, at $10. per wk, 130 00 M. A. Lawlor, teaching primary school, Fall term, 13 wks. at $9. per wk. 117 00
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H. N. Wood, teaching grammar school,
Winter term, 14 wks, at $10 per wk, 140 00 M. A. Lawlor, teaching primary school,
Winter term, 13 wks. at $9. per wk, 117 00 James Hewes, for wood, 70 86
James Meade, sawing and splitting wood, 4 70
Samuel Harding, sawing and splitting wood, 11 48
Frank E. Russell, care of school room, 12 17
Daniel J. McCarty,
3 52
William C. McCarty,
66
1 80
Frank W. Chick, care of school rooms, 5 50-$832 03
INCIDENTAL SCHOOL EXPENSES.
Paid Asa T. Putnam, building wall by North School house lot, $28 50
L. S. Russell, work on cellar under South School house in 1871, 6 50
Hiram W. Smith, clock for Centre School room, 6 00
Mrs. James Meade, cleaning Centre School rooms, 7 00
L. H. Russell, crayons, pails, brooms, &c. furnished the schools, 12.92
Albert Mansfield,
"
7 16
Boston Daily Journal, advertisement, for teachers. 1 65
Quincy Mutual Fire Ins. Company, assessment on policy on South School house, 68 56
Quincy Mutual Fire Ins. Company, assessment on policy on Centre School house, 4 20
J. Coney, repairs &c., on North School house, 11 00-$153 49
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Overseers' Department.
EXPENSES OF POOR.
Paid Dr. Ames, medical attendance on
Mary Skinner, $19 00
Elbridge Russell, for board of Caroline Meader, 109 50
Joseph Henfield, for board of Nellie F. Stevens, 25 00
Dr. Whiting, medical services, 1 75
William G. Strong, for board of Joseph Brierly, 104 00
Sarah P. Hawkes, for board of John P. Hawkes, 44 00
Town of Middleton, aid rendered Mrs. Daigneau, 52 66
Assistance rendered travelling paupers, 24 42-$380 33
Recapitulation of Expenses.
Paid State Aid to families,
$294 00
Borrowed money,
1,650 00
Interest money,
157 52
Cemetery expenses,
254 70
Abatements,
127 46
Taxes refunded,
34 09
Town officers,
359 40
Highways,
1.742 05
State Tax,
960 00
County Tax,
659 50
For Schools,
1,650 72
Incidental School Expenses,
153 49
Expense of Poor,
380 33
Miscellaneous expenses,
325 57
Removing Snow,
162 90
Incidental highway expenses,
243 19-$9,154 92
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General Account.
ASSETS OF THE TOWN.
Cash in Treasurer's hands, March 31, 1873,
$ 827 80
Due on tax list of the year 1872, 877 89
1871,
404 70
1870, 90 15
1869, 8 56
1868, 28 30
Due from State, aid to families in 1872, 373 50 - $ 2,610 90
Town Debt.
Note to Martha, Brown, on demand, with interest at 6 per cent, $1,000 00
Note to Mehitabel Skinner, on de- mand, at 6 per cent,
450 00-$1,450 00
Balance in favor of the town,
$1,160 90
JOHN DANFORTH, 1
GEORGE L. HAWKES, WILLIAM SKINNER,
Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of Poor.
Lynnfield, March 31, 1873.
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Statistics. 1872.
Valuation of real estate,
$431 747
·personal estate,
$330 455
Total valuation,
$762 202
Rate per cent for taxation, 80 cents per $100.
Total number of Polls, 209.
Total number of dwelling houses, 155.
Acres of land taxed, 4870.
Number of Horses, 155.
Cows, 264.
Sheep,
5.
DOGS LICENSED.
Number of dogs licensed, 27.
Females, 4. Males, 23.
Cash paid the County Treasurer, $60 60
Statistics from Town Clerk's Records.
BIRTHS REGISTERED IN LYNNFIELD, 1872.
Date of Birth.
Name of Child.
Names of Parents.
Occupation of Father.
Lindary
8.
Daisy May Dill.
Harry P. and Lucy H.
Civil Engineer. Farmer.
March
2.
Ada Blanche Phinney.
Albert and Mary J.
April
22.
William Frederic Lamont.
Joseph and Mary E.
Carpenter.
MAV
26.
Benjamin Wilbur Watson.
Benjamin and Celia E.
Farmer.
June
3.
Walter Everett Bancroft.
Charles H. and Sarah E.
Carpenter.
July
8.
Margaret Lynch.
Patrick and Mary.
Laborer.
18.
Arthur Edward Moulton.
Edward Q. and Etta
Carpenter.
22.
Harry Leslie Emerson.
Justus W. and Ellen G.
Laborer. Farmer.
September 1. 06
14.
Lilley Bradbury Hayward.
Alfred J. and Nellie S.
Shoemaker.
19.
Lillian Lee Carr.
Edwin V. and Weltha E.
Blacksmith.
November 17.
Letitia Mabel Coates.
Reuben R. and Nancy N ..
Shoemaker.
December
9.
John McCarty.
Charles and Mary.
Laborer.
20.
Emma Augusta Mansfield.
Andrew and Esther A.
Farmer.
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DEATHS REGISTERED IN LYNNFIELD, 1872.
1
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Age. Yrs. mos. dys.
Place of Birth.
Names of Parents.
Cause of Death.
February
4.
Eliza McDuffie.
75
Lynn.
Amos and Betsey. John and Eliza.
Paralysis. Consumption.
March
10.
Aaron W. Richardson.
16
1
Geo. A. and Mary H. Stephen E. and Sarah.
66
May
20.
Betsey Norwood.
79
17
July
18.
James W. Newhall.
9 22
August
15.
Henry Bancroft.
86
6
Boston.
66
19. Hannah C. Skinner.
61
7
17
Salem.
"
26.
Harriet W. Boyd.
40
3
28
Cambridgeport.
John and Ann C. Benjamin and Lydia.
September 4. Jacob Wiley.
82
10
16
So. Reading.
.
27
Hannah M. Nichols.
41
29
Lynnfield.
25.
Charles E. Bent.
13
1
9.
John Brimblerom.
65
Marblehead.
William and Betsey. James H. and Sarah T. Samuel and Lucy. James and Sally P. Margaret.
Cholera Infantum. Disease of Kidneys. General Debility. Consumption. Disease of Heart. Inflammation.
Clara Maria Herrick.
George E. and Abby M.
MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN LYNNFIELD, 1872.
Date of: Marriage.
Name of Groom and Bride.
Age.
Residence.
Place of Birth.
Names of Parents.
By whom married.
Jan'y
4.
Jas. Albert Ramsdell,
25
Lynnfield.
Lynnfield.
Joseph and Sopliia R. Betsey T.
66
.
30. Henry F. Bond,
51
Toledo, Ohio Boston.
George and Ann S.
Pamela O. Emerson.
39
Lynnfield.
Lynnfield.
Hubbard and Harriet O.
Feb'y 14.
Andrew Mansfield, Esther A. Schofield.
33
Lynnfield.
Lynnfield.
.
Andrew and Sophronia P.
Thomas and Eliza.
John H. and Mary L. W.
Thomas and Lucy.
Mar.
28. Henry H. Dame, Eveline A. Mason.
27
No. Reading
North Reading.
Timothy and Sarah C.
May . : 7. Silas S. Dwight,
22
Hatfield.
Andover. Hatfield.
Henry and Flora E.
June.
5. George F. Danforth, Carrie L. Atwood.
31
Lynnfield. Malden.
Gardiner, Me.
George M. and Lucy W.
July
2. Thomas W. Nelson, Sarah A. Stone. Henry E. Wiley Susan E. Peabody.
30
Lynnfield.
Nova Scotia.
27
Lynnfield.
Lynnfield.
26
Lynnfield.
Lynnfield.
Alfred and Harriet N. Henry and Harriet Y. Samuel N. and Diana A.
28. Francis I. Newcomb, Mary E. Morrison.
26
Boston.
Appleton, Me.
John and Mahala.
27
Peabody.
Nova Scotia.
John and Hannah.
21
Peabody.
Nova Scotia.
Thomas and Mary E. Joshua and Jedidah H.
Sept.
30. Rupert C. Wheelock, Mary Ann Merritt. 4. Joseph F. Hewes, Honorah Gould. 10. James W. Russell, Lucy Jane Gowing.
44 35 25
Lynnfield. Lynnfield. Wakefield.
Wakefield.
Samuel and Fannie.
23
Lynnfield.
Lynnfield. Lynn.
Nov.
12. James M. Foster, Mary Jane Chasson. 21. Asa T. Newhall, 2d, Cinderilla Wiley.
22
Lynnfield.
25
Lynnfield.
Danvers.
William and Lucy. John J. and Rebecca L. Thomas J. and Lucy W. Hiram L. and Jane E. Joseph C. and Cinderilla.
Rev. Jacob Hood, Lynnfield Centre. Rev. S. K. Lothrop, Boston. Rev. Jesse Wagner, Saugus. Rev. Wm. F. Porter, Wakefield.
Rev. Jacob Hood, Lynnfield Centre. Rev. O. S. Butler, Georgetown.
Isabe! L. Parsons.
23
Lynnfield.
Lynnfield.
Israel A. and Emily R.
Lynnfield.
John and Sarah H
Alexander and Lavinia. John H. and Anna.
25.
19 23
Middleton.
Andover.
Boston.
Lynnfield.
Lynnfield.
Ireland.
66
66
27 Lynnfield.
18 Lynnfield. Lynn.
Lynnfield.
Rev G P Huntington Malden. Rev W A Thompson, Reading. Rev. C. F. Myers, No. Reading. Rev. O. P. Emerson, Lynnfield Centre. Rev. O. P. Emerson, Lynnfield Centre. Rev. Chas. R. Bliss, Wakefield.
19
Rev. E. B. Fairchild, Stoneham. Rev. O. P. Emerson, Lynnfield Centre. Rev. D. D. Cheney, South Lynnfield.
Hattie L. Loveland.
30
Lynnfield.
Malone, N. Y.
20. Francis E. Noyes, Caroline P. Cox.
19
Lynnfield.
Newburyport. Lynnfield.
21
Andover.
Josiah and Sarah J. '
24
Wakefield.
Saugus.
24 24
Saugus.
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Annual Town Meeting.
ESSEX, ss.
To SAMUEL HARDING, one of the Constables of the Town of Lynnfield, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lynnfield, qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet at the TOWN HALL, in said Town, on MONDAY, the Seventh Day of April next, at 12 o'clock, M., to act on the following arti- cles, viz. :-
ART. 1. To choose a Moderator, to preside in said meeting.
ART. 2. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the ensuing year.
ART. 3. To hear the report of Town Officers, and act upon the same.
ART. 4. To raise money for Town expenses the current year.
ART. 5. To raise money for the support of Schools the current year.
ART. 6. To raise money for repair of highways, and de- termine how the same shall be expended.
ART. 7. To determine the manner of collecting Taxes the present year.
ART. 8. To set a time for the Collector of Taxes to set- tle his list.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Collector of Taxes to charge interest on all Taxes not paid at the time he is required to settle his account.
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ART. 10 To see if the Town will authorize the Treas- urer to hire money, if necessary, to meet the demands of the Town.
ART. 11. To see if the Town will cause the bells to be rung.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will enforce the laws re- lating to Fisheries.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will cause the hill in the highway near the house of John H. Stone, to be cut down, or take any action thereon.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will refund Moses Brown any portion of the money paid for the old school house in the south part of the Town.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will cause the highway near the house of Sally Spinney, to be removed, or take any action thereon.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof in the usual manner.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of said Meeting.
Given under our hands at Lynnfield, this twenty-fourth day of March, A. D., 1873.
JOHN DANFORTH, Selectmen GEO. L. HAWKES, of
WILLIAM SKINNER, J Lynnfield.
A true copy. Attest,
SAMUEL HARDING, Constable.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD,
FOR THE
YEAR 1872.
SALEM: PRINTED AT THE GAZETTE AND MERCURY OFFICE.
1873.
REPORT.
The School Committee present their Report of the condition of the schools in Lynnfield, for the year ending at date.
I. FINANCES.
Receipts.
School Appropriation
$1,500 00
Massachusetts School Fund
125 50
Tuition of Pupils from Lynn
24 00
Balance of Appropriation for 1871
4 78
Dog Tax.
55 98
$1,710 26
Expenditures.
Teachers' Wages
$1,406 00
Wood and preparing
195 48
Care of School Rooms
49 04
Total Expenditures
$1,650 52
Balance
59 74
$1,710 26
For other items of expense, please see the Select- men's Report.
II. SCHOLARS.
May 1st, the Assessors reported 116 persons be- tween 5 and 15 years of age in town. Last year 133 were reported, showing a decrease for this year.
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The greatest number belonging to the schools at any one time, and the average attendance for the year, were as follows :-
North School,
greatest number,
22 yearly average 17.62
Centre Primary School
66
35
27.28
Grammar School
66
37
24.53
South School
38
66
27.36
132
96.79
Scholars from other towns have attended our schools. From North Reading, 4; from Peabody, 1; and from Lynn, 2.
The principal items of interest in regard to the schools, are presented in the following table :-
SCHOOLS.
TERMS.
No."belonging.
Between 5 and 15.
Under 5.
Over 15.
Av. Attendance.
Per ct. Attendance.
Teachers' Wages.
$8.00
11
NORTH.
Spring. Fall. Winter.
20
19
0
1
16.96 16.19
.85 .85 .87
8.00
12
22
20
0
2
19.23
8.00
15
CENTRE PRIMARY.
Spring. Fall. Winter.
31
31
0
0
0
32.29
.92
9.00
13
24
24
0
20.63
.86
9.00
13
CENTRE GRAMMAR.
Spring. Fall. Winter.
24
21
0
3
20.68 18.78
.86
10.00
11
24
21
0
3
5
32.72
.88
10.00
14
Spring. Fall.
36
35
0
1
27.61
.77
10.00
11
SOUTH.
34
32
0
2
25.23
.74
10.00
13
Winter.
38
31
0
7
29.10
.77
10.00
14
19
19
0
0
29.00
.93
9.00
12
35
35
0 0
13
37
32
0
.
.78
10.00
Weeks of School.
Quarterly
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III. TEACHERS.
Position, time of commencing service in town, and wages per month in 1872-3 :-
Miss Sarah A. Weston, North School, April 15, 1872, S $32 00
1 32 00
Miss Hattie E. Perkins, 66 Dec. 2, 1872 32 00
Miss M. A. Lawlor, Centre Primary, April 6, 1867,
36 00
36 00
36 00
Miss Hattie N. Wood, Centre Grammar, April 18, 1872, 40 00
40 00
40 00
Miss Mary A. Gustin, South School, April 15, 1872,
40 00
40 00
40 00
NORTH SCHOOL.
During the Spring and Fall Terms, this school was under the care of Miss S. A. WESTON, and did well.
During the Winter term, Miss H. E. PERKINS was the teacher. Considering it was her first effort at teaching, the school made commendable progress.
CENTRE PRIMARY.
The good appearance of this school does much credit to both teacher and scholars. Miss M. A. LAWLOR has now completed her sixth year of consec- utive service in this town, as a teacher, and this is her fifth year in this school.
CENTRE GRAMMAR.
During the past year, this school has been under the instruction of Miss H. N. WOOD, a well qualified and successful teacher.
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SOUTH SCHOOL.
This school the past year, has been under the in- struction of Miss M. A. GUSTIN. She was evidently the teacher for the school, and the school was just the one for the teacher; hence it was a marked success.
The number of different scholars of all ages in all the Public Schools during the school-year, is 149.
The average attendance in all the Schools during the school-year, is 99.47 1-3.
The average attendance during the Winter term, has been considerably diminished by severe storms, and deep snow. The Centre Primary and the South have suffered the most.
THE ROLL OF HONOR.
We feel that justice requires us to give the names of those who have been perfect in attendance, except when sickness prevented.
An index or hand, ([ indicates those who have been perfect in attendance three years in succession ; and a star, (*) those who have been perfect two years in succession.
NORTH SCHOOL.
Clarence E. Cook .
1st Term. 2d Term. 3d Term.
Willie A. Cook .
66
*Fletcher E. Coney .
66
66
Edwin Whitcomb 66
66
Florence Whitcomb 66
Kate E. Coney .
66
Willie Whitcomb
66
Carrie Pattee
John Splain
66
.
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CENTRE PRIMARY.
Henry W. Phillips .1st Term. 2d Term. 3d Term.
*Edward L. Phillips
Daniel A. Chick. 66
66
66
George H. Herrick
66
66
Charles R. Remington
66
Frank E. Russell 66
James Henry Mead. 66
Henry Clifford Russell
66
Carrie H. Thurston .
66
Katie Theresa Mead. 66
Alice G. Newhall .
Daniel A. Webster
66
Frederick A. Russell
66
Charles W. Whiting
66
Willie E. Barker
66
Mary W. Flannigan
Fannie Ward Perkins
Ella M. Watson .
..
William G. Russell
CENTRE GRAMMAR.
George M. Roundy 1st Term. 2d Term. 3d Term. 66
Eddie L. Roundy
Nellie S. Downing
*Kate N. Hood.
Mary W. Newhall
Emma Bancroft ..
Sarah Herrick
Arthur Hewes.
66
Susie Newhall · Bessie Colby
66
SOUTH SCHOOL.
Herman Campbell 1st Term. 2d Term. 3d Term.
Carrie W. Abbott 66
.:
George W. Bradford
Laura A. Newhall
Willie B. Little
Nellie F. Walton
66
Edith N. Bradford
Charles Otis.
Malachi Minehan
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Notwithstanding the deep snow which prevented the attendance of several who lived at a distance, and whose record would have been perfect, yet we rejoice that the average attendance is higher this year than the last. We wish the average to be not less than 100 per cent. in each of the schools; and if the parents will all determine, and carry out their determination, to have their children at school every day during term time, we can have it so. Fathers, mothers, will you labor to have your children at school every day during term time the coming year, and have them there in season ? The absence of your child from a single recitation, is an injury to him; and not to him only, but to the whole class of which he is a member. Not only so, but his absence injures the record of the whole school. The parent, therefore, who takes his child from school, or suffers him to be absent, not only injures his own child, but takes from others what he can never repay.
COMPARATIVE POSITION OF THE TOWN.
The following statistics must be interesting to all. They are derived from the Report of the Board of Education of 1871. The report for 1872 is not yet published.
In the amount of money appropriated to each scholar between five and fifteen years of age, the town stood in the State, the 91st, -. the year before, the 156th. In the County it stood. the 10th,-the year before, the 20th.
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In percentage of valuation appropriated to Public Schools, the town stood in the State, the 308th,-the year before, the 307th. In the County, it stood the 32d,-the same as the year before.
In the average attendance upon school, the town stood, in the State, the 31st,-the year before, the 90th. In the County it stood the 3d,-the same as the year before.
Your Committee cannot close this Report without requesting parents to perform a duty which has been too much neglected,-the duty of frequently visiting the schools. By such visits you would know, by per- sonal observation, how your children get along in their studies, what their standing in their classes, and what their record of attendance. Such visits could not but but result in good. They would assist the teacher, and destroy the false impressions or reports, which sometimes prevail. When a child comes home and says, " I don't like the teacher," take not the child out of school, but visit the school frequently, and you will find that the child was under the influence of a crimi- inal prejudice.
Mothers, it pays well to spend an afternoon in the school-room. It will aid you in helping your children to prepare their lessons; for a lesson that has been re- cited at home, will be remembered, and will pass off well at school. Moreover, such visitations would en- able you to become acquainted with the duties and difficulties of school management; and hence would tend to make you prudent, as to the matter and man- ner of what you say at home, in regard to the teach- ers.
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We congratulate the town, that, though in the County it is the smallest but two in population, and the lowest but four in valuation, yet eight of her daughters, graduates of the State Normal School, Sa- lem, have been employed as teachers the past year, and five more are now in the said Normal School, pursuing a course of preparation for teaching.
JACOB HOOD, ALBERT MANSFIELD, EMILY P CONEY,
School Committee.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Receipts and Expenditures
OF THE
Town of Lynnfield,
WITH
Vital Statistics furnished by the Town Clerk,
WITH THE
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
FOR THE YEAR 1873.
SALEM, MASS : GAZETTE STEAM BOOK AND JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT. 1874.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Receipts and Expenditures
OF THE
Town of Lynnfield,
WITH
Vital Statistics furnished by the Town Clerk,
FOR THE YEAR 1873.
SALEM, MASS GAZETTE STEAM BOOK AND JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT. 1874.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Selectmen's Department.
CREDITS AND RECEIPTS FOR 1873.
Cash in Treasurer's hands, March 31, 1873, $ 827 80 Due on tax lists of the years 1868, '69, '70, '71, '72, 1409 60 Received from State, aid to families in 1872, 250 00
66 66 Bank Tax,
1030 00
66 66 66 Corporation Tax, 591 82
66
School Fund, 121 36
County Treasurer, for dogs licensed, 61 37
City of Lynn, for scholars attending South School, 18 40
66 Town of North Reading, for scholars at- tending North School, 40 00
66
" Town of North Reading, for use of road scraper, 5 00
Interest from delinquent tax-payers, 24 05
From sale of lots in Willow Cemetery, 20 00
Borrowed money, temporary loan, 700 00
6. From J. G. Perley, for grading near his house, 25 00 From sale of old stoves, Centre School-house, 1 40
Tax List committed to Collector, 6178 11
$11,303 91
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HIGHWAYS.
The town appropriated for repair of highways, the sum of $1500, and voted that a division of that sum to the several wards be made as last year, which was as follows :-
Ward 1. Appropriation $225.
ASA T. PUTNAM, SURVEYOR.
Paid Asa T. Putnam, labor and team, $63 50
Daniel Splaine,
24 00
George Gloson,
6 00
George Norwood,“
6 00
A. B. Davis, 66
4 00
Calvin Bent, 66
40 00
James Meade, 66
18 00
George S. Smith, “
15 00
A. P. Putnam,
30 00
Alfred Wiley, 66
10 00
David Crowley, 66
6 00
F. W. Aborn, 66
2 50-$225 00
Ward 2. Appropriation $320.
SAMUEL W. PHILLIPS, SURVEYOR.
Paid Samuel W. Phillips, labor, $69 60
William Gowing,. 66 42 80
Addison Goodhue, labor and team, 66
86 60
James Hewes,
22 00
Elbridge Russell,
66
41 40
James Meade, 66,
21 30
Justus W. Emerson,
15 00
A. B. Davis,
66
35 30
Asa T. Putnam,
66
5 00 .
N. S. Chick,
66
2 00-$341 00
5
Ward 3. Appropriation $262.
WILLIAM R. ROUNDY, SURVEYOR.
Paid William R. Roundy, labor and team, $85 00
Oliver Downing,
20 00
David Wilkins, 66
15 00
Justus. W. Emerson,
21 00
James Meade,
18 00
Richard R. Ruggles,
66
15 00
Samuel W. Phillips,
6 00
A. B. Davis,
9 00
James Forsyth,
66
9 50
John K. Bancroft,
66
16 00
Joseph T. Bancroft,
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