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qualifications of the teacher, and the committee have been pleased with the care and thoroughness with which the scholars have been taught. There was evidence that the school had made good progress. The recitations for the D most part were correct and prompt. The full attendance of parents and friends at the examination on a stormy day, showed a lively interest in the success of the school.
NORTH SCHOOL.
SUMMER TERM.
Teacher, . . MISS CINDERILLA NEWHALL.
Length of School, 5 3-4 months.
Wages of Teacher per month $21
Whole number of scholars 26
Average attendance . 19
Age of pupils, 4 to 16 years.
Miss Newhall is a graduate of the Salem Normal School, and this her first attempt at school keeping .- This is the smallest school in town, and most of the pu- pils young. There seemed to be a good understanding between teacher and pupils, and the school made progress during the summer in their various studies. The closing examination was satisfactory.
WINTER TERM.
MISS NEWHALL was continued as Teacher for the Winter Term. Length of School, 2 7-8 months.
Wages of Teacher per month $24
Whole number of scholars 30
Average attendance
23 and 22-29ths.
Age of pupils, 6 to 17 years.
The order of the school when visited by the committee, and at the closing examination, was good, the scholars quiet and attentive to their duties. The first class in Arithmetic had progressed to near the close of the vol- ume. Two young ladies in algebra were doing well .-
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Not as many scholars attended to Colburn's Arithmetic as should have done, considering the value of that work for disciplining the mind. Classes in Grammar and History were advancing. In writing, while some had made good improvement, others were less successful. A class in book-keeping exhibited a specimen of their knowledge .- Specimens of composition, in sentiment and language, were creditable to the readers. Credit is also due to the young gentlemen for their good deportment.
Your committee remark, and would call especial atten- tion to the subject, that while most parents appreciate the importance of sending their children regularly to school, there are others who seem to be regardless of the highest interest of those committed to their care and education, by allowing them to trifle with the opportunities for ob- taining instruction afforded by the common schools.
It is difficult to conceive anything more reprehensible in the care of children and youth than to deprive them, through inconsideration and neglect, of the advantages of common school education-of that moral instruction so necessary to the formation of character, and of that ele- mentary knowledge so requisite in the practical business of active life.
While provision is made for all the children in town to attend school for about nine months in the year, there are those who attend but for a few weeks, without any cause for their neglect, and spending their time in idleness and growing in ignorance.
The common schools, being the institutions of the State and under the supervision of a school committee, and re- ceiving a portion of the income of the school fund, the stat- ute makes it the duty of such committee to look after all
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delinquents and ascertain the reason, if any, of such neg- lect, and report to the proper officer.
In order to bring the subject to the notice of all con- cerned, your committee transcribe the law relating to the subject, as follows :-
AN ACT Concerning the Attendance of Children at School .- Chapter 240 of the Statutes of 1852.
SECTION 1. Every person who shall have any child un- der his control between the ages of eight and fourteen years, shall send such child to some public school within the town or city in which he resides, during at least twelve weeks, if the public schools within said town or city shall be so long kept, in each and every year during which such child shall be under his control, six weeks of which shall be consecutive.
SECTION 2. Every person who shall violate the provis- ions of the first section of this act shall forfeit, to the use of such town or city, a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, to be recovered by complaint or indictment.
SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the school commit- tee in the several towns or cities to inquire into all cases of violation of the first section of this act, and to ascer- tain of the persons violating the same the reasons, if any, for such violation, and they shall report such cases, togeth- er with such reasons, if any, to the town or city in their annual report.
By an additional act, chapter 309 of the laws of 1855, it is made the duty of the school committee to report to the treasurer of the town, instead of reporting to the town, in their annual report. A subsequent law of 1859, in chapter 138, makes it the duty of the town treasurer to prosecute all violations of the act of 1852.
Irregular attendance, and dismission during the daily session of the school are a serious injury, not only to those who leave, but to the remainder of the class. Pa-
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rents are earnestly requested to remedy this evil in fu. ture.
One other thing to which your committee beg your at- tention, is the visiting of the schools during the term, and at the close. While some are frequently visited, and largely at the close, others are almost entirely neglected. Would we have our schools attain their highest usefulness we should encourage them by our presence at every ex- amination.
J. NEWHALL, JAMES HEWES, HENRY E. SMITH,
School Committee.
FEB. 27, 1865.
APPENDIX.
SCHOOL COMMITTEES.
The School Committees of the Town of Lynnfield since its incorporation in 1814, have been as follows. Prior to the year 1823, the Prudential Committees of the several districts had charge of their own schools.
PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEES.
Daniel Mansfield, 1814-16-17-18-19-22.
Jolın Bryant, 1819-20-21.
Elias Richardson, 1814.
Dea. Oliver Emerson, 1819-22.
Col. Joel Hewes, 1814-15-16-17-18-21.
Samuel Wiley, 1820.
Col. Matthew Cox, 1815.
Joshua Hawkes, 1820.
Hon. Asa T. Newhall, 1815-21.
Benjamin Cox, 1820.
Capt. Ebenezer Hart, 1815.
Joshua Hewes, 1820.
Herbert Richardson, 1815.
Bowinan Viles, Esq., 1821.
Daniel Needham, Esq., 1816-17-18-21.
Capt. Henry Bancroft, 1822.
SCHOOL COMMITTEES.
Capt. John Upton, 1823-29-30-38.
Rev. Joseph Hill, 1835-36.
J. Newhall, 1823-25-27-28-38-39-40-41-43-44-46- Rev. John Bailey, 1835. 52-53-58-59-60-61-62-63-64-65.
Col. Joel Hewes, 1823-25-27.
Rev. Joseph Searle, 1824-25-26-27.
Hon. Asa T. Newhall, 1823-25-26-30-33-34-36.
Col. Matthew Cox, 1825-30-37.
Daniel Needham, Esq., 1823-25.
Rev. Mr. Jones, 1824.
Benjamin Wiley, 1826.
Jolm Bryant, 1826.
William E. Cox, 1843-44.
David Needham, 1826.
William A. Whittredge, 1845-46-47-48.
Dea. Oliver Emerson, 1826-34-41-49-50-56.
P. St. M. Andrews, 1845.
Dea. Wm. Smith, 1849-50-51-52-53.
Benj. U. Preston, 1849-50-51.
A. Mansfield, Esq., 1827-29-30-32-33-42-47-48. Wright Newhall, 1827.
John Aborn, 1830.
Bowman Viles, Esq., 1830-33-36.
Joshua Hawkes, 1831-34.
Rev. Reuben Porter, 1831.
Rev. Mark Staples, 1831.
William Perkins, 1831-32-35-36.
Daniel Mansfield, 1832-37.
Joseph Smith, 1860.
Ebenezer Parsons, 1862.
James Hewes, 1863-64-65.
Henry E. Smith, 1863-64.
Edward Upton, 1834-35.
Joseph Hart, 1851.
Israel A. Parsons, 1852-53-61-62.
Rev. Ariel P. Chute, 1854-55.
Rev. U. W. Conditt, 1854-55.
Rev. Luther Walcott, 1854-55.
David A. Titcomb, 1856-57.
James G. Perkins, 1856-57-58-59-60-61. Israel A. Parsons, Jr., 1857-58-59.
Joshua Hewes, Esq., 1832-39-40-42.
Moses Richardson, 1831. Jacob Wiley, 1832-34.
Geo. T. Whittredge, 1835.
Thomas B. Newhall, Esq., 1836.
Oliver Emerson, Jr., 1837.
Capt. Henry Bancroft, 1838.
Wm. Perkins, 1831-32-35-36. John Perkins, Esq., 1839-40-43-44-47-48.
Willard Wiley, 1842-45-47.
John Danforth, Jr., Esq., 1841.
Rev. Warren Emerson, 1826-27-28-29-30. Dea. John Perkins, 1827-28.
FINANCIAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING MARCH 1, 1866.
WITH THE ANNUAL
Report of the School Committee.
SALEM: ESSEX COUNTY MERCURY AND SALEM GAZETTE PRESS. 1866.
FINANCIAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD,
FOR THE YEAR
ENDING MARCH 1, 1866.
SALEM: ESSEX COUNTY MERCURY AND SALEM GAZETTE PRESS. 1866.
REPORT.
Overseers' Department.
PAID FOR SUPPORT OF POOR.
Edward A. Flagg, board and clothing, $123 43
John Wiley, 66 66 66 115 75
Robert Gowing, 66 66 66 33 97
David Gowing's family, 50 48
J. N. Allen's 66
66 12
Mrs. M. Hobson, aid supplied by City of Salem, 40 00
Wm. Norwood, 66 66 Lynn, 77 99
Nellie F. Stevens, 79 75
Fannie Skinner, 12 00
Otis Norwood, 25 00
Louisa Roberts and child, 24 00
$648 49
Selectmen's Department:
WAR EXPENSES-BOUNTIES.
Paid to Timothy M. Keith, Feb. 27, 1865, $125 00
" " George A. Wiggin, Mar. 7, 66 125 00
$250 00
STATE AID TO FAMILIES.
Paid to Harriet E. Hewes, . $144 00
" Betsey M. Skinner, 48 00
66 Abigail E. Phillips, 48 00
66 " Hannah Whiting, 51 00
66 Mary S. Richardson,. 69 00
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Paid to Elvira M. Mitchell, 48 00
" Mary Summers. 36 00
" Charlotte M. Ramsdell, 84 00
66 " Elizabeth Z. Newhall, 84 00
66
66 Sarah R. Cook, 39 00
66 " Sarah J. Mitchell, 36 00
66 " Elizabeth Hewes, 64 00
66
66 Sophia Mitchell, 28 00
66
" Elizabeth B. Billows, 14 00
30 00
66 66 Alfred Wiley, 30 00
66
" Sarah K. Brown, 14 00
66
" Jeremiah Coney. 16 00
66 Hannah Otis, . 20 00
66 " Mary E. Wiley,. 37 00
$940 00
SCHOOLS.
Appropriated. Expended.
North District,
$213 56 $213 56
Centre 66
319 40. 319 40
South 66
306 40 306 40
.
$839 36
$839 36
EXPENDED ON ROADS AND BRIDGES.
The appropriation by the town at the last annual meeting for the repair of highways, to be assessed as a highway tax, was $700. In addition to the tax, the Surveyors of the several Wards, by direction of the Selectmen, have expended as follows :-
In Ward No. 1, John Bryant, Surveyor, $00 00
66 " 2, Daniel Hill, 66
17 52
66
66 " 3, J. M. Danforth, 66
27 75
66
66 " 4, George Lawrence, 66
00 00
66
66 " 5, Henry Clay, 00 00
$45 27
66 " Elizabeth Reed,
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DELINQUENT HIGHWAY TAXES.
Ward No. 1, ..
$29 46
2,. 55 54
66
66 3, 11 56
66
66 4, 59 79
66
66 5, 8 53
$164 88
ABATEMENTS.
On Tax List of 1863,. $11 01
66 66
" 1864, 24 20
66 66 66 4 1865,. 107 66
$142 87
PAID BORROWED MONEY.
To Gerritt H. Bennink, $1,000 00
" So. Danvers Savings Bank, . 1,000 00
" Harriet W. Pratt,. 1,000 00
" James H. Newhall .
350 00
" Charles K. Granville,
300 00
" Daniel P. Cook,. 250 00
" John Danforth, Jr., 200 00
" Thomas E. Brown,. 200 00
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" Osborn Richardson, Jr., 200 00
" Wendell G. Nichols's administrator, 150 00
" Charles P. Skinner's trustee, . 150 00
" Byron Richardson, . 100 00
" Arthur C. Richardson, 100 00
" Henry B. Wellman, 100 00
" George M. Summers, 100 00
" Sarah K. Brown, . 100 00
$5,300 00
PAID INTEREST.
To Gilman D. Kingman, . .$120 00
" South Danvers Savings Bank, 71 13
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To Harriet W. Pratt, 77 17
" Benjamin Bryant, 36 00
" Gerritt H. Bennink. 31 50
" Henry Bancroft, 31 54
" Mrs. Daniel Brown, 60 00
" Charles K. Granville, 36 40
" Daniel P. Cook, 21 66
" Wendell G. Nichols's administrator, 28 50
" Charles P. Skinner's trustee, 23 62
"'John Danforth, Jr., 17 00
" James H. Newhall,.
17 50
" Henry B. Wellman, 20 40
" Osborn Richardson, Jr., 10 33
" Arthur C. Richardson, 15 00
" Thomas E. Brown. 11 09
" Byron Richardson, 6 75
" Sarah K. Brown, 3 50
" George M. Summers, 4 50
" State Treasurer, 2 28
$645 87
TOWN OFFICERS' BILLS.
Jonathan Bryant, Collector and Treasurer,. $75 00
66 66 for extra services, . 10 00
John Danforth, Jr., services as Town Clerk,.
66
66 recording Births, Marriages and Deaths, 6 00
66
66 making Official Returns, 10 00
66
66 preparing Financial Report, . 5 00
66
. 66 copy of Census for the Town, .. 3 00
66
66 as Selectman, Assessor and Overseer, . 115 15
Andrew Mansfield, 66 66 47 75
William Skinner 66 66. 66
66 33 00
Josiah Newhall, services as School Committee,. 19 19
James Hewes, 66 66 66
22 00
Henry E. Smith, 66 66 22 00 66
Samuel Harding,
Constable, . 3 75
William R. Roundy, making returns of Deaths 90
$384 74
12 00
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MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.
Printing Financial and School Reports for 1864, . $40 22
66 Warrants, Tax Bills, List of Voters, &c., 14 82
Chas. K. Darling, Blank Books and Stationery 6 43
J. L. Fairbanks, Census Blank Book, 2 00
Paine & Herrick, legal advice and services in 1862, 25 00
I. A. Parsons, jr., making Ice Boxes, 27 45
Labor in Forest Hill Cemetery, 34 50
Nancy Skinner, release of right of way through Cemetery,. 15 00
Henry L. Eaton, surveys in Cemetery, 1 50
James Hewes, clearing Snow in 1864, 75
D. B. Wheelock, funnel for Town Hall, 8 25
Setting bounds between Saugus and Lynnfield, 8 25
Samuel Harding, ringing Bell on special occasions, 1 50
66 66 repairs and care of Town Hall,. 3 42
Benjamin Perkins, carpenter work and stock used, 2 25
Assistance rendered transient Paupers,. 6 00
Postage and Expressage, 4 80
Making Deed and recording,. 1 50
L. H. Russell, halyards for Flag Staff, 1 33
A. A. Newhall, repair of Biers, 1 25
Aid to Snow family, 67 48
$273 70
Recapitulation of Expenses.
Paid for support of Poor, $648 49
66 66 Schools, 839 36
66 Bounties,. 250 00
66
66 State Aid,
940 00
66
66 State Tax,
2,914 00
66 County Tax,
650 90
66 66 Borrowed Money,
5,300 00
66 Interest Moncy
645 87
66
66 Roads
45 27
66
66 Town Officers' Bills,
384 74
Abatements,.
142 87
Delinquent Highway Taxes worked, 164 88
Miscellaneous Expenses,. 273 77
$13,200 08
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Receipts and Credits.
Cash in hands of Treasurer, March 1, 1865,.
$1,019 57 7 37
Due on Tax List of 1862,.
.. .. .. . 1863, 73 17
66 66 66 " " 1864,. 698 30
Money Assessed to pay State Tax,
2.914 00
650 90 66 66 66 County Tax,
66 66 Town Expenses,
2,000 00
66 66 66 66 Town Debt, . 1,500 00
66 66 66 Bounties paid in 1864, 1,450 00
800 00
66
66 66 for Schools,.
Rec'd from State, aid to families in 1864,.
2,000 00
426 78
66
66 66 portion of School Fund,.
39 36
66
66 66 Selectmen in their hands for recruiting, .
250 00
66
66 town of Truro, aid to Snow family,
166 98
66
66
Adm'r of Estate of John A. Hawkes,
163 76
66 sale of casks, &c., of Liquor agency
22 00
sale of Cemetery lots, 30 00
66
66 delinquent tax payers, . 5 39
Refunded from State, money deposited for recruiting, 175 00
Delinquent Highway Taxes due, 164 88
257 23
Borrowed money of Mehitable Skinner, 550 00
66
66 " Sarah K. Brown,. 100 00
$15,464 69
General Account.
LIABILITIES OF THE TOWN.
Due Gilman D. Kingman, $2,000 00
66 Mrs Daniel Brown,. 1,000 00
66 Benjamin Bryant,. 600 00
66 Mehitable Skinner. 550 00
Warren Newhall's Estate, 400 00
$4,550 00
66 Corporation Tax,
Overlay on all the Taxes, .
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RESOURCES OF THE TOWN.
Cash in hands of Treasurer, .
725 73
Due on Tax List of 1865,
1,474 57
66
66
" 1864, 77 02
66 .. 66 66 " 1863,.
29 47
from State, aid to families in 1865,. 1,292 00
66
66
66 66 " 1864, 207 00
Delinquent Highway Taxes of last year,. 164 88
3,970 67
Balance against the Town,
$579 33
JOHN DANFORTH, JR.,
and
WILLIAM SKINNER,
Overseers.
LYNNFIELD, FEB. 28th, 1866.
Births, Marriages and Deaths, during the Year 1865.
· BIRTHS.
Number of Births, as reported by Town Clerk, .
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MARRIAGES.
Ira M. Ramsdell and Alda M. Chapman, married March 9. John W. Burditt and Anna M. Burditt, 66 April 4. Albert R. Bryant and Sarah E. Danforth, June 29.
Irving Richardson and Eliza J. Joll, Aug. 21.
Amos S. Haggett and Maria H. Procter, 66
Nov. 2.
George K. Walton and Lucy Emerson, 66 19
James H. Skinner and Mary E. Abbott, 66 Dec. 31.
DEATHS.
Betsey Newhall, died Jan. 3, aged 80 years; Lois Hawkes, died Jan. 10, aged 79 years; Bernard Reynolds, died Jan. 14, aged 1 year; Thomas Keenan, M.D., died Jan. 17, aged 61 years; Asa Palmer, died Feb. 13, aged 60 years; Emeline Merrow, died March 17, aged 24 years; Sidney B. Bryant, died March 22, aged 7 years;
Selectmen, Assessors, ANDREW MANSFIELD,
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Lois Smith, died April 23, aged 84 years; John McCarty, died June 7, aged 1 year; Warren Newhall, died July 24, aged 68 years; Han- nah Gowing, died Aug. 30, aged 44 years; Thomas N. Crane, died Sept. 3, aged 33 years; Ann Phippen, died Nov. 1, aged 52 years; Jeremiah F. Fuller, died Nov. 1, aged 44 years; Luther Wade, died Dec. 5, aged 63 years; Caroline E. Chasson, died Dec. 25, aged 4 years .- Total, 16.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD,
FOR THE YEAR
1865-6.
SALEM: ESSEX COUNTY MERCURY AND SALEM GAZETTE PRESS. 1866.
REPORT.
The School Committee, impressed with a sense of the trust committed to them, and of their responsibility, have endeav- ored to provide efficient teachers for the several schools, and for every thing necessary to facilitate the progress of the scholars.
The town raised the liberal sum of $800, being six dollars and fourteen cents for each scholar between five and fifteen years of age.
As the town, at its annual meeting, made no provision for the distribution of the school money, your committee divided it between the several districts, the same as last year, which appeared to them as just and equitable.
According to the return of the Assessors on the first day of May last, there appeared to be but one hundred and thirty- one children in town, between the ages of five and fifteen years.
Attention has been called during the year, to branches of study in some of the schools which seemed to have been less attended to than their importance demands. Among these, were writing and mental arithmetic. The former should be thoroughly acquired by every scholar, and the latter is a most important study, which not only strengthens and disci- plines the mind, but is indispensable in business.
Your committee have doubted whether some of the studies pursued in the public schools are the most judicious, exclu- sive to others, that might have a direct bearing upon the occupation, which is to be the pursuit of scholars in after life.
Whatever calling is to be followed by the pupil, especially
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if its success depends upon a knowledge of natural law, should be made a part of his study in his school days.
Having in view the prosperity of the State and the impor- tance of agriculture, the Legislature, Feb. 5, 1862, passed an act as follows :- Agriculture shall be taught by lectures, or otherwise, in all the public schools in which the school committee deem it expedient. A manual of agriculture has been prepared expressly for the use of schools, and, although your committee have not introduced it into the schools, still, they would call the attention of parents and students to the subject.
Agriculture is not only the most important occupation of man, for it was ordained by the Almighty himself, but it is the foundation upon which all others rest, and the secrets of nature connected with it, constantly court the attention of every inquiring mind.
The investigations of chemistry connected with it, have re- vealed the laws by which nature carries on the process of vegetation, and produces the supplies which sustain all sen- tient life. The student will here see with the highest admira- tion, the contriving power of the Creator in the formation of one of the gases of the atmosphere, from which the greater part of all animal and vegetable bodies are compounded.
Again, Botany is intimately connected with the study of agriculture. Aside from the knowledge it discovers of the dietetic value of plants, the inimitable hues of their flowers are the admiration of all intelligent minds.
" The dyes of all the looms of ancient and modern times were borrowed from flowers. The philosophers of the east saw, that to please the world, they must follow nature. "Mark the lily how it grows. Solomon, in all his glory, was not ar- rayed like one of these," says an inspired writer.
" Who can paint Like nature ? can imagination boast Amid its gay creations, hues like these ? Or, can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows !"
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How interesting and profitable, then, must the study of agriculture be to all those who purpose to make it their occupation !
Another branch among the higher studies to which atten- tion is called, is Physiology. It is a subject important to every scholar, as well as to the community. Without a knowl- edge of those natural laws, which govern life and health, all other attainments may become useless. A sound mind in a sound body is the prerequisite for energetic and efficient action.
Every child, every person, should, among other things, con- stantly realize, that to be well they must breathe a pure air. The atmosphere, in its natural state, is as necessary to the health of man, as the element of water is to the life of the fish. Vitiate either to a certain extent, and life becomes ex- tinct. Hence, the importance of well ventilated school-rooms during school hours. Under the broad term, education, this study should not be neglected.
From much observation, your committee are satisfied that it is wrong to require young children, from five to seven or eight years of age, to attend school during each session of the day, more than an hour or two. In these infant years, to confine them any great length of time, and to require them to sit still, is opposing nature, and is injurious to their health. Such, therefore, have been dismissed at recess.
In looking at the Abstract of School Returns for the last school year, 1864-5, by the Secretary of the Board of Educa- tion, in the table giving the comparative amount of money raised for each child between five and fifteen years of age, Lynnfield, among the 334 towns of the State, stands No. 140, which is very well.
In the comparative amount of money raised by the several towns in the County, according to their taxable property, Lynnfield stands No. 20 among the 33 towns.
Amount raised for each child, Lynnfield is No. 17.
In the table giving the average attendance of scholars at
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school in the several towns in the State, Lynnfield is No. 282, which is not creditable to the town. Irregular attendance is a subject to which your committee have, on former occasions, called your attention. It is an evil, destructive to the highest usefulness of the schools. Not only the absent scholars are injured, but those who daily attend are retarded in their pro- gress. Indeed, such is the indifference of some parents to this subject, that they place themselves in a position to be called upon under the law, which was brought to notice in the re- port of the school committee of last year.
SOUTH SCHOOL.
SUMMER TERM.
This school commenced on the 18th of April, and was con- tinued during thirteen weeks, and after a vacation, was con- tinued from August 15th to November 3d, making the summer term 23 weeks.
Teacher,,. MISS MARIA A. E. CLARK.
Wages of Teacher, per month,. $27
Whole number of Scholars, 48
Average Attendance, . .33
Miss Clark, although young and inexperienced in school keeping, on becoming acquainted with her pupils, and having a desire for teaching, and being energetic in manner, soon gave promise of success.
Having gained the confidence of her scholars, she embel- lished her school-room with specimens of the fine arts, and having made things pleasant, proceeded with her school.
During the monthly visits of the Committee, it was seen that steady progress was being made by the several classes in their respective studies. Writing was attended to with care, and good improvement made. Classes in mental arith- metic were instructed with especial care. The order was good, and the examination satisfactory.
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SOUTH SCHOOL.
WINTER TERM.
Teacher Miss M. A. E. CLARK.
Length of School, 12 weeks.
Wages of Teacher per month,
$32 00.
Whole number of scholars 60.
Average attendance,. .47.
Miss Clark having taught the Summer School, successfully, was continued in charge of the same during the Winter. Or- der has been good, and the scholars generally quiet and at- tentive. Writing has been daily attended to with much im- provement. Two classes in Geography have done unusually well. Weekly reports of the standing of the scholars have been useful. Gymnastic exercises and singing have occa- sionally occupied the attention of the scholars at recess. The School met on several evenings for improvement in spelling. Towards the close of the term, your Committee found that the progress of the School was such, as to reflect credit on both teacher and scholars.
CENTRE SCHOOL.
SUMMER TERM.
Teacher,. H. V. NEWHALL.
Length of School, 23 weeks
Wages of Teacher, $24 00.
Whole number of scholars,. 60.
Average attendance,. .48}
At the opening examination the appearance of this School was highly pleasing. The order and discipline were good. The teacher labored assiduously to promote the good of those under her care. She has proved herself to be a competent and faithful teacher. The Committee in their visits invaria- bly found the School in good condition. The general progress of the School was good, and the appearance of the School at the close, was such as to fully sustain the already well earned reputation of the teacher.
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CENTRE SCHOOL.
WINTER TERM.
Teacher,. A. B. CHASE.
Length of School, 12 weeks.
Wages of teacher per month,.
. $42 00.
Whole number of scholars,. 60.
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