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We recommend that the sum of $8000 be raised for the mainten- ance of schools during the coming year, with $700 additional for in- cidentals.
The terms of Messrs. Davis and Parker of the committee expire, leaving two vacancies to be filled at the ensuing town meeting.
The usual statistics, report of expenses, etc., are contained in the appendix, to which attention is invited
Respectfully submitted : HORACE G. WADI,IN, Chairman, CHARLES F. BROWN, W. WALLACE DAVIS, STILLMAN E. PARKER, HENRY G. KITTREDGE, WILLIAM J: WIGHTMAN,
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF READING.
ADOPTED IN SCHOOL COMMITTEE:
March 16, 1880.
APPENDIX.
GENERAL STATISTICS.
Population of Reading, 3,186
Number of children between 5 and 15 years of age, May, 1879,. 487
Amount appropriated for instruction, fuel, and care of rooms, $7500 00
Amount appropriated for incidentals,
700 00
Amount received from State school fund,
197 º5
Amount received from other sources,
3 60
Total receipts, $8400 65 Expended for instruction, fuel, and care of rooms. $7662 37 Expended for incidentals, . 693 88
Total expenditures,
8356 25
Balance unexpended, .
$44 40
PUPÍLS.
Whole number of different pupils enrolled during the year. 607
Average whole number (from returns of each term) 523
Average daily attendance. 473
Number of pupils admitted to High School 53
Average age of pupils admitted to High School.
14 years 6 mos.
Length of terms : Ist, 12 weeks ; 2d, 12 weeks ; 3d, 14 weeks.
NAMES OF PUPILS GRADUATING FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL, JUNE, 1879.
(The number graduating in this class is 64.7 per cent. of the num ber in the class when admitted.)
Emma Adden, Ida E. Clark,
Hattie W. Cook,
Annie S. Davies,
Emma Holden,
Almina Knight,
· Nellie A. LaClair,
Emma E. Manning,
Addie A. Mitchell, Nina E. Morrill,
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Mary E. Nichols,
Abbie N. Parker,
Jessie P. Pendergrace,
Kate E. Perry,
George W. Beasley,
Walter P. Gleason,
John R. Hutchinson,
Frank W. Kendall,
Warren H. Manning,
Leighton H. McIntire,
George L. Pratt,
Edward Webster.
ROLL OF HONOR,
giving the names of those who have been neither absent nor tardy since March, 1879, and the schools to which they belong.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Hannah E. Hibbert,
*L. Fannie Mitchell, +Lillie A. Holden,
*George Hill,
+Fannie A. LaClair,
#Sylvina F. Moulton,
Emma W. Rich,
Harvey A. Bancroft,
*William S. Manning,
William A. Weston,
Lottie H. Allen,
Martha E. Babb,
Laurie E. Clark.
Hattie C. Eaton,
+Hattie E. Austin, M. Idabelle Beard, +Hattie E. Damon,
*Grace M. Holden,
#Annie M. Moulton,
Arthur T. Mckay, Charles F. Reid,
*Mary A. Emerson, *Annie C. Lawrence, Georgia P. Pendergrace, *Edward E. Nichols, Charles C. Wright,
Alice O. Dow and Agnes H. Forbes have not been absent, and have each been tardy once only, in three years. Edea R. Beers and Emma Hutchinson have been absent one day, and Susan R. Nichols and Laura C. Melendy one half day only, in three years ;Wilbur F. Pratt, Hattie V. Stone and Mary C. Holden have been absent one half day only, in two years ; neither of these pupils have been tardy.
FIRST GRAMMAR.
Mary A. Bancroft,
Abbie J. Eames,
tEmma M. Damon, Lizzie B. Parker,
*Lora A. Potter, #Walter M. Kingman,
Parker J. Gowing, Mabel Brown,
ĮKatie M. Trowe.
Ellen M. Jackson has been absent one half day only and has not been tardy.
*Neither absent nor tardy in two years. fNeither absent nor tardy in three years. ¿Neither absent nor tardy in four years.
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SECOND GRAMMAR.
Annette S. Krook,
Grace S. Parker, *Herbert L. McKay,
*Edna C. Potter, William T. Loftus, Edward I. Brown.
THIRD GRAMMAR.
Sophia F. Krook,
*Annie J. Riordan,
Willie B. McKay.
WOBURN STREET GRAMMAR.
John Lewis, Fannie Phillips,
Hattie Richardson, Nellie Weston.
WALNUT STREET GRAMMAR.
Charles W. Hunter, Lilla F. Kidder.
UPPER MEDIUM. .
Sarah E. Parker, Mabel H. Parker, *Nellie Riordan.
LOWER MEDIUM.
Florence E. Brown, Bartholomew Carley,
*Willie D. Channel, Emil C. Litchfield,
Kirke P. Sanborn.
UNION STREET UPPER PRIMARY. Eben Beard. UNION STREET LOWER PRIMARY. Wilfred A. Bancroft.
WALNUT STREET PRIMARY. Delia Converse.
LOWELL STREET MIXED.
*John Allen, Eugene Trask,
Martin B .. Hartshorn.
MAIN STREET MIXED.
*Mabel S. LaClair, *Lilla M. Taylor.
Nathaniel Hill has been absent one day only in two years and has not been tardy.
HAVERHILL STREET MIXED.
M. Grace Wakefield, Chester K. Wakefield. C. Clyde Wakefield absent but one day and not tardy during the year.
*Neither absent nor tardy in two years.
Course of Study in High School.
ENGLISH COURSE.
First Term.
Second Term.
Third Term.
FIRST YEAR.
Chemistry. Arithmetic. English Grammar.
Chemistry. Algebra.
Botany. Algebra. Gram'r & Book-
Grammar and Book- keeping, Alternately. keeping, Altern'y
SECOND YEAR.
Physics. Geometry. Geography.
Physics. Geometry. General History.
Physics. Geology. . General History.
THIRD YEAR.
Astronomy. English Literature. French.
Civil Government. English Literature. French.
Review of Com- mon branches. Eng'h Literature French.
*Reading, Composition and Rhetoric throughout the course. An English and Classical course may be taken substituting Latin for the third study above mentioned in each term.
Table showing Salaries, Attendance and Number of Visitors.
Number of Average Attendance.
pupils.
Ist Term.
2d Term.
3d Term.
Ist Term.
2d Term
3d Term.
Pupils during year
under 5 years.
Pupils during year
High School ..
153. . | § Cyrus A. Cole, Principal. .
$1400 00 per year.| 82|105 103 12 00 per week.
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47 3736
Second Grammar.
155. . Miss Sarah L. Stoodley. .
12 00
do
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32
31
31
31
Third Grammar.
72. . Miss Annie M. Knight.
12 00
do
37
29
27
36
27
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Woburn Street Grammar
65. . Miss Hattie A. French.
12 00
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30
29
24
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10 00
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70
57
42
55
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Union Street Lower Primary . .
243. . Miss Ruth L. Pratt. . 46. . Miss Evelyn C. Bancroft ..
6 00
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32
26
27
26
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Walnut Street Primary ..
35. . Miss Vestina P. Converse ...
4 00
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25
21
28 20
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Lowell Street Mixed.
42. . |Miss Cora M. Prescott ...
8 50
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24
20
25
22
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37 . . Miss Z. Abbie Wakefield ..
6 00
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Haverhill Street Mixed ..
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1530 535 505 488 484 447| 107
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Totals ..
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First Grammar.
104. . Miss A. Evelyn Barrows.
12 00
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Walnut Street Grammar
45. . Miss Susan R. Drew .
10 00
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21
26
27
19
22
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Upper Medium ..
I51. . Miss Evelyn S. Foster.
10 00
do
21
24
25
20
22
24
Lower Medium.
148. . Miss Sadie R. Lindsay.
10 00
do
24
44.
43
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42
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Union Street Upper Primary. .
220. . Mrs. S. A. Goodridge.
10 00
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56
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Woburn Street Primary ..
32. . Miss Marion E. H. Barrows.
8 00
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Main Street Mixed ..
Number of Vistors
Names of Schools.
Teachers now employed.
Salary now paid.
over 15 vears.
80 101, 95
96|. . .
Miss Mary L. Stinchfield, Assistant
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* An increase of 63 over previous year.
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Expenses of Schools.
INSTRUCTION.
Paid for teaching High School $1832 00
First Grammar. 468 00
Second Grammar
444 00
Third Grammar 456 00
Woburn Street Grammar 456 00
Walnut Street Grammar. 380 00
Upper Medium. 380 00
Lower Medium. 380 00
Union Street Upper Primary 380 00
Union Street Lower Primary 380 00
Woburn Street Primary 228 00
Walnut Street Primary . 152 00
Lowell Street Mixed.
323 00
Main Street Mixed. 304 00
Haverhill Street Mixed
228 00
$6801 00
JANITORS.
Paid for care of Centre School buildings ... . . $321 00 Woburn Street School buildings. 47 50
Walnut Street School buildings .. 55 75 Lowell Street School buildings. . 32 00
Main Street School buildings ... 28 50 Haverhill Street School buildings. 28 50
513 25
Amount carried forward.
$7314 25
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Amount brought forward . $7314 25
FUEL.
Paid Wendell Bancroft, for coal. $23: 00
Town of Reading, for wood. 95 80
labor on wood 21 32
348 12
Total amount expended $7662 37
Total amount unexpended
34 68
$7697 05
Receipts :
Appropriation, .
$7500 00
From State School fund,
197 05
$7697 05
INCIDENTAL SCHOOL EXPENSES.
Paid Wm. A. Hunter, labor and repairs, . $1 87
G. W. Atkinson, brooms and sundries, . 7 05
Parker & Stone, sundries, 35
Copeland & Bowser, curtains and fixtures,. .
8 65
A. & E. Burton, feather dusters,
9 II
A. G. Whitcomb, chairs,
4 80
Mathew Hanley, chairs, . 3 00
S. Martin, sundry supplies, 3 12
D. Pratts' Sons, clocks and repairs, 11 75
C. A. Loring, locks, bell rope, zinc, and sundry repairs,. 9 33
A. H. Murray, diplomas,. IO 00
H. G. Wadlin, cash expended for sundries, .. 2 45
Mrs. Dennis Lahan, cleaning,. 3 00 Old South Parish, use of church, . 15 00
F. E. Brooks, moving settees and labor, 6 75
Arthur Morrison, labor, 8 55
J. C. Arthur, labor,. 7 05
Mrs. Barbarick, cleaning, 3 00
Dennis P. Babb, labor,. 3 00
Wm. E. Moulton, grading school yard,
4 25
Amount carried forward,. $122 08
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Amount brought forward, . .... $122 08
Paid C. T. Tolman, printing programmes and re- port cards, . 18 75
G. W. Pierce, lettering diplomas, 3 00
M. Batchelder, labor,.
3 50
W. W. Davis, cash expended for labor, .
2 00
C. A. Cole, cash expended for report cards for High School,. 14 25
Boston School Supply Co., numeral frame,. 67
J. L. Hammett, erasers and supplies. .
12 15 A. W. Danforth, books for teachers' desks, . 8 30 A. W. Danforth, books for indigent pupils, .. 29 17
Wm. H. Willis, books for indigent pupils,. . 2 15
C. A. Cole, books for indigent pupils, 4 72 S. M. Hall, mason work at Union Hall, .... 23 79
Bancroft & Temple, stock and labor on re- pairs, . 12 87
Wendell Bancroft, stock and labor on repairs 33 25
N. W. Broad, 66 66
14 76
Daniel Creesy,
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22 22
W. M: Phillips, 66 66
5 99
Amos McIntire, contract for painting High School, . 60 00 M. E. Nichols, contract for painting Union Hall, . 119 88
Amos McIntire, extra painting, 5 00
J. H. Wentworth, repairs on pumps, . 2 50
D. Lothrop & Co., 30 copies Little Folks' Reader, one year, . 12 60
D. Lothrop & Co., books, 26 25
Estes & Lauriat, dictionary, 8 50
T. Littlefield, stoves, sundries and repairs, . .
67 15
G. O. Batchelder, rent of Main Street school lot, 1879, . 5 00
Citizens' Gas Co., gas at High School, 10 50
Cummings' express, expressage, .
3 60
H. G. Kittredge, cash expended for postage,
1.43
Amount carried forward, $656 03
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Amount brought forward. · $656 03
J. L. Hammett, globes, 28 00
C. F. Brown, dictionary, 8 40
M. E. Nichols, setting glass,
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C. A. Loring, setting glass,
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Total amount expended, $693 88
Unexpended, 9 72
$703 60
Receipts :
Appropriation, . .$700 00 From L. B. Smith (Abbott), gas consumed at High School in 1879,. 3 00
For books furnished pupils, 60
$703 60
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Town Warrant.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Reading, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, .you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabi- tants of the town of Reading, qualified to vote in elec- tions and town affairs, to meet in Lyceum Hall, in said Reading, on MONDAY, the FIFTH day of APRIL, A. D. 1880, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the follow- ing articles, viz .:
ARTICLE 1. To choose a moderator.
ART. 2. To hear and act on the report of the Aud- itors, Treasurer and Collector, Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, School Committee, Road Com- missioners, Engineers of the Fire Department, Trustees of the Public Library, Trustees of the Cemetery, and other Committees.
ART. 3. To see if the town will revoke its accept- ance of the provisions of the 158th chapter of the laws of this State, enacted in the year 1871, and abolish the Board of Road Commissioners, chosen and constituted under said law, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 4. To choose a Town Clerk, Selectmen, As- sessors, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, Collector, two School Committee for three years, one Road Com- missioner for three years, and all other necessary town officers.
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ART. 5. To sce if the town will erect and maintain street lights, at the corner of Elliott and Green. Parker and Pleasant. Minot and Main, Main and Summer, Summer and Walnut, Summer and Hopkins, Washing- ton and Prescott, Lowell and Linden, Linden and Mt. Vernon streets, near junction of Lowell, Sanborn and Highland streets, and on the Hancock Engine House, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 6. To see if the town will build a cistern on High street. near the residence of E. A. Hyde, and at or near the corner of Summer and Walnut streets, and how much money they will raise and appropriate for that purpose.
ART. 7. To see if the town will place flagstones. across Haven street, from Willis' drug store to King- man's comer, and from Kingman's corner across Main street to a point near the residence of Edwin Manning, and how much money they will raise and appropriate therefor.
ART. 8. To see what action the town will take in regard to needed alterations and repairs of the Alms- house.
ART. 9. To see what action the town will take for the protection of the records, and other property in the town office, from fire.
ART. 10 To determine how much money the town will raise for the support of schools, and how much for incidental school expenses the ensuing year.
ART. 11. To determine how much money the town will raise for the repair of highways and bridges the ensuing year, and how the same shall be expended.
ART, 12 To determine how much money the town will raise for defraying the expenses of the Fire De- partment the ensuing year.
ART. 13. To see how much money the town will raise for street lights the ensuing year.
ART. 14. To determine how much money the town
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will raise for the support of the Public Library the en- suing year.
ART. 15. To see how much money the town will raise for improvements in the cemetery the ensuing year.
ART. 16. To see how much money the town will raise to pay the interest on the town debt.
ART. 17. To see how much money the town will raise to defray the ordinary expenses of the ensuing year, not otherwise provided for.
AR !. 18. To determine how much money the town will raise for the repair and decoration of soldiers graves.
ART. 19. To see how much money the town will raise to keep the Old South clock running, the ensuing year, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 20. To see if the town will instruct the Town Clerk to cause all books of record belonging to the town, the covers of which have become injured by use, to be rebound and properly lettered.
ART. 21. To see what action the town will take in regard to exempting the property of the Boston and Maine Railroad from taxation for a term of years, or abating the taxes assessed on the same, provided they will remove their car and machine shops from Lawrence to Reading.
ART. 22. To see if the town will employ a night police, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 23. To see what action the town will take in regard to framing and adopting a code of by-laws.
ART. 24. To see if the town will define the duties of the Auditors, or do anything in relation thereto.
ART. 25. To determine the compensation of the Collector of taxes, and other town officers, or take such action in the matter as they shall deem expedient.
ART. 26. To see if the town will change the name of Summer street to Summer Avenue.
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ART. 27. To see what instructions the town will give the Assessors and Collector.
ART. 28. To see if the town will authorize their Treasurer to hire money under the direction of the Selectmen, in anticipation of taxes.
ART. 29. To see for what purpose the town will ap- propriate the money received for dog licenses.
ART. 30. To hear and act on the list of Jurors pre- pared by the Selectmen.
ART. 31. To hear and act on the report of the Road Commissioners, on laying out a town way from Main street to Bancroft Avenue.
ART. 32. To hear and act on the report of the Road Commissioners, on laying out a town way from High street to the Boston and Maine Railroad, and from said railroad to Summer street.
ART. 33. To hear and act on the report of the Road Commissioners in relation to guide-posts.
HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make due return of this war- rant, with your doings therein, to the Town Clerk, at or before the time appointed for said meeting.
Given under our hands this twenty-sixth day of March, A. D. 1880.
JOSEPH L. PRATT, Selectmen of
JAMES REID,
WILLIAM J. HOLDEN, Reading.
A true copy .- Attest: William L. Crowe Constable.
NOTICE .- The laws of 1879 having conferred upon women the right to vote for school committee, makes it necessary that the names of persons to be voted for for school committee should be on a separate ballot, and be deposited in a separate box.
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