Town of Westford annual report 1896-1901, Part 38

Author: Westford (Mass.)
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Westford (Mass.)
Number of Pages: 836


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In the proper and well directed performance of his school work, the child should gain such a command of his faculties, and such an accumulation of will power, that he will ever be ready to seize opportunity "by the forelock," and meet every obligation of duty.


He should be so trained that, when coming to the cross- roads in life, with no guide-board to direct, he may be able to choose for himself the right way. Every lesson should be so taught and learned as to contribute to this all desirable attain- ment. Merely to memorize, or to learn with reference to special display, is not educational in any proper sense of the term. Indeed, it may weaken, rather than strengthen, the pupil. To bring into action the latent faculties of the child, is absolutely demanded of the teacher, and with this view a knowledge of the child mind is an absolute necessity to successful work in the school-room. For school instruction should "adopt the means by which a non-thinking, non-reflecting, non-speaking child can most surely be trained into a noble citizen, ready to contend for the right and to die for the right."


In the gift of free will we are endowed by our Creator with the power to work out our own destiny; and it is the highest function of education to help us overcome the disadvantages of troublesome environment and unfavorable circumstances, in the gaining of a noble manhood and womanhood. True education can but make a true man. If one seems to be educated and is not a true man or woman, it is safe to infer that one has been the victim of wrong or faulty instruction. In a word, let it be said that any conception of education is imperfect and inadequate, that does not contemplate the production of that well-rounded character which shall embody in principle and action, "Whatso- ever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report."


In conclusion, I wish to thank the committee for their sup- port, and for the cordial manner in which I have been received, and the teachers for their co-operation in the work.


Respectfully submitted.


HERBERT E. RICHARDSON.


REPORT OF THE ACADEMY.


Herbert E. Richardson, Superintendent of Schools:


Dear Sir :- In the town report, issued last March, a state- inent was made of the work done by the Academy students dur- ing nearly two-thirds of the school year ending in June, 1900. The classes continued their study of the subjects therein indi- cated, except that Chemistry, Botany, Civics and Physiology were taken up during the spring term, in place of Physics, Gen- eral History, Astronomy and English History. It seems unnecessary to state here in detail the studies pursued by the several classes, as the report submitted last March shows what the students had done during nearly two terms of the school " year, and indicates the rate of their progress. The interest of the students in their studies was well maintained during the spring term. For several years past the requirements for admis- sion to colleges and technical schools have been gradually increased, both in the number of subjects and in the amount of work to be done. A short time ago the requirements for the State Normal Schools were made nearly equal to those of the smaller colleges; and the catalogues now state explicitly that a four years' course in a good High School is necessary for the preparation of candidates. In the cities and large towns of the State, the studies of the ninth grade are completed in the gram- mar school; and it may be fairly assumed that the Normal Schools require students who apply for admisison to have done thor- oughly the work of a four'years' High School course, in addition to the ninth grade work of the grammar school. A large major- ity of Normal School and college students come from cities and populous suburban towns; and the examinations and standards of entrance are naturally adapted to the teaching capacity of the large and thoroughly equipped High Schools having an adequate number of teachers in every department. Under these condi- tions, it is evident that Academies and High Schools in which


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only two teachers are employed, and in which pupils are admitted after leaving the eighth grade, are unable to prepare students for college or Normal School without considerable difficulty. It cannot be done in a three years' course of study; even the four years' course is sufficient only for those students who attend regularly and are faithful and zealous in their work. The best and largest secondary schools in the Commonwealth insist upon a preparatory course of four years. It seems hardly just to expect the country academy with two teachers, its students admitted from the eighth grade, and so widely scattered that their average attendance is necessarily poor, not merely to keep pace with the city High School, but even to gain a year upon it in the admission of students to higher institutions.


Graduates from the three years' course at the Academy were admitted to Normal Schools in September, after some work dur- ing the summer, on conditions received at the entrance examina- tion held the last of June. Whether this fact affords reasonable grounds for censure of the Academy, or for congratulation of the candidates, is a question to be answered, after due considera- tion, by the people of the town.


The studies of the eighth grade do not prepare the pupils for the more difficult tasks of the secondary school. In some cases there is continual failure to learn the lessons that must be assigned; in others the labor, though partially successful, is difficult and discouraging. Hence, the younger pupils, or those who learn slowly, or those who are kept out a few weeks, being unable to do the work necessarily set for their class, or to recover lost ground, are more than willing to drop their books and studies altogether. The inevitable result of entering the Academy too early is to leave it too soon; a matter of deep regret to teachers, disappointing, if not humiliating, to parents, and of decidedly harmful influence upon the young people themselves.


It would seem advisable, therefore, to admit to the Academy next September only the more advanced division of the eighth grade pupils, and thereafter to have the ninth grade studies wholly completed in the grammar school. This measure would raise the average of scholarship in the Academy; the pupils, more mature and farther advanced, would be able to do the more diffi-


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cult work required in the Academy courses; and a greater num- ber would complete them and be duly graduated. To be sure, this plan would require pupils to wait another year-wait until they were fitted for it-before entering the Academy. Would the delay be harmful to them?


It is not my province to prescribe or apply the remedy for any defects that may appear in the system of our town schools. In response to your request for some report concerning the work of the Academy. I have ventured, however, not only to state in a general way the facts desired, and the demands which must now be met by the teachers and students of the Academy, but also to suggest a measure which will, in my opinion, greatly increase its influence and usefulness.


Very truly yours,


WILLIAM E. FROST.


REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC.


Mr. Richardson, Superintendent of Schools:


Dear Sir :- My services as Supervisor of Music in the schools of Westford began in September, 1900, and during the six months' work, considerable progress has been made. The method employed is entirely different from that used heretofore, it being Prof. Sterrie A. Weaver's individual sight-singing method. By ineans of this every child, in all the schools, sings an exercise alone, each day in the week, having a different exer- cise every day. It has become a part of their day's work, and I find in most cases the children look forward with pleasure to the singing lesson. As he is capable a child is allowed to have harder exercises, for which he strives. I have labored under some disadvantage in the ungraded schools, it being difficult to teach music in a room containing all grades. In the method employed there is a certain amount of work to be covered in each grade during the year; thus the ungraded schools do not progress as rapidly as the graded schools.


I will not particularize the work of each grade, but trust the parents know what their children are doing in music, and I urge them to visit the schools during the music period and inspect the work.


The music in the Academy is not what I hope to see it in the future. As the lower grades enter there, results from the previous instruction will show, and the music should reach a higher standard, as I feel it will.


The teachers have all kindly taken up the work with energy, and I believe it has been their co-operation with me that has caused the progress in music thus far in the year.


Respectfully,


IDA P. PRESCOTT,


Supervisor of Music.


TRUANT OFFICER'S REPORT.


Graniteville, Mass., Feb. 28, 1901.


To the School Committee of the Town of Westford :


Gentlemen : In accordance with the requirements of the Commonwealth and the vote of the Town the following report is respectfully submitted.


The whole number of cases investigated 27


Truants compelled to attend school 2


The above is for the Graniteville Schools.


In December, 1900, Mr. J. H. Prescott resigned as Truant Officer of Forge Village and I was called to fill the place. Six cases were investigated. In one case there was prosecution and the child was compelled to attend school.


Respectfully submitted,


EUGENE DEROEHN,


Truant Officer.


SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1901-1902.


--


SPRING TERM-Begins March 18, 1901; closes June 14, 1901. Term's length, 13 weeks. Summer vacation, 12 weeks.


FALL TERM-Begins September 9, 1901 ; closes November 22, 1901. Term's length, 11 weeks. Vacation, one week.


WINTER TERM-Begins December 2, 1901 ; closes February 28, 1902. Term's length, 12 weeks.


HOLIDAYS.


April 19, Patriot's Day ; May 30, Memorial Day ; Thanks- giving week; Christmas week.


Program of Westford Grammar School Graduating Exercises, June 15, 1900.


PROGRAM.


Invocation.


.


Rev. E. H. Roper.


Song-" The Fountain" Lowell


Essay-" The New England Poets."


Charlotte Prescott.


Recitation-" Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle" . Holmes


Inez Burnham.


Song-" The Boston Tea Party "


Holmes


Marion Hall, Belle Shugrue, Luella Wright,


Johanna O'Brien, Bertha McLenna.


Declamation -- " The Angels of Buena Vista " . Whittier


Leroy Hartford. Essay-" A Visit to Old Concord." Jennie Ferguson.


Song-" The Poet and the Children " .


Whittier


Chorus of Girls.


Recitation-" The Building of the Ship "


Alice Sheahan.


.


Longfellow


Essay-" Sons of New England." .


Clarence Wright. Song-" Hurrah for Old New England." Presentation of Diplomas. .


Supt. Herbert E. Richardson.


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GRADUATING CLASS.


Clarence Wright. William Murphy. Alice Sheahan. Jennie Ferguson. Allan Whitney.


Marion Hall. Johanna O'Brien. Luella Wright.


James Healy. William Bicknell. James Sullivan.


Charlotte Prescott. Martha Symmes. Bertha McLenna. Inez Burnham. Leroy Hartford. Mabel Symmes. Belle Shugrue. Austin Healy. Arthur Bicknell. Hilda Normington. Edson Blaisdell.


PROGRAM OF WESTFORD ACADEMY GRADUATION EXERCISES, JUNE 22, 1900.


PROGRAM.


Organ Solo-March Triomphale


· J. Lemmens. Miss Julia H. Fletcher, Class of '97.


Prayer. Rev. Elijah H. Roper.


Essay-The First Post Offices.


Edith A. Wright, Westford.


Essay-The Coliseum.


Flora E. Palmer, Graniteville.


Song-Selected. Mrs. Daisy Shaw Merritt.


Translation from the French of Victor Hugo.


Luanna B. Decatur, Westford. Essay-Frances E. Willard.


Annie M. Connell, Tyngsboro. Recitative and Aria from "Scipio." " Hear me! ye winds and waves." Mr. A. E. Prescott, Class of '81.


Handel.


Essay-Comets. Mary E. Holden, Westford. Duet-" Hark ! Hark, my soul." Schnecker.


Mrs. Merritt and Mr. Prescott. Essay-The Enlargement of Woman's Sphere. Eva M. Connell, Tyngsboro. Organ Solo-Grand Processional Mr. Thomas R. Frost, Class of '95. Conferring of Diplomas.


S. B. Whitney.


Rev. Edward A. Horton.


'America."


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GRADUATING CLASS.


ENGLISH COURSE.


Annie Maud Connell. Eva May Connell.


Mary Edna Holden.


Luanna Battles Decatur.


Flora Estella Palmer. Edith Augusta Wright.


Motto : " Par labeur et par honneur."


ROLL OF HONOR.


ONE YEAR.


Badger, Carl Craven, Eva Day, Walter


Greig, John S. Trull, Elmer Wright, Lillian


Wright, Carl


TWO TERMS.


Buckingham, Willie Carlton, Raymond


Day, Albert


Darling, Venia


Lord, May


Decatur, Elsie


McDougall, Etta


Mooney, Frank


Shugrue, Lena


ONE TERM.


Banister, Marguerite


Decatur, Nat


Bertheaume, Medie


Donnelly, Mamie


Bertheaume, Nerry


Doucet, Lottie


Brown, Kate ·


Ferguson, Howard H.


Buckingham, Horace


Ferguson, Jennie


Carkin, Stella B.


Fields, May


Canture, Lewis


Fletcher, Harold


Canture, Alfred


Fletcher, Grace L.


Charlton, Frank


Flynn, Thomas


Charlton, Agnes


Flynn, John


Clark, Margaret


Fulton, Loring


Coburn, Charlie


Fulton, Lottie


Cummings, Walter


Fulton, Robert


Day, Addie


Fulton, Stella


Day, May E.


Gibson, Ella


Darling, Roy


Gower, Annie


Darling, Ora


Daley, Gerald


Healy, J. Austin Hildreth, Harold


Furbush, Ruth


Hartford, Estelle M.


Healy, James R.


Leclerc, Mary


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Kimball, Alson Kimball, Inez F. Leclerc, Annie Loftus, Gertrude Loftus, Mabel


Reed, Barber Richardson, Ora Roper, Jennie Roper, Frederick Savoir, Felix


Lord, Philip


Shattuck, Stella


Lord, Helen


Shattuck, Walter


McDonald, Mabel


Shugrue, Frank


McCoy, Bertha


Shugrue, May


Miller, Ruth


Spinner, Jack


Miller, Everett


Sullivan, Mary


Morton, Gertie Moran, Lillie M.


Symmes, Anna


Symmes, Paul


Pyne, Olive


Pyne, Eva F.


Record, Mary


Valentine, Bella Vinal, Olive Wright, Luella A.


Wright, Clarence


LIST OF TEACHERS, 1900-1901.


SCHOOLS.


TEACHERS.


APPOINTED.


EDUCATED.


SALARY.


Academy


Assistant


Alice E. Burrill.


1900


Boston University, '99. .


Town pays $1,500.


Eighth Grade.


Ruth Fisher


1900


Lowell Normal. .


1 00


Centre Intermediate.


Cora A. S. Feltham.


1900


Salem Normal.


10 00


Centre Primary . .


Harriet Merrill


1900


Haverhill Training . .


10 00


Forge Grammar


Etta Holt. .


1896


Punchard Academy.


10 00


Forge Primary ..


Marion Brown


1899


Quincy Training . .


12 00


Graniteville Grammar ... ·


Burr J. Merriam


1899


Oneonta Normal.


15 00


Graniteville Intermediate .. .


Jssie A. Parker .


1897


Westford Academy.


10 00


Graniteville Upper Primary.


Mary E. Bemis .


1900


Westfield Normal.


10 00


Graniteville Lower Primary.


Flora E. Palmer


1900


Westford Academy.


8 00


Nabnassett .


Edith K. Wilson.


1901


Salem Normal ..


8 00


Stony Brook ..


Anna Mellen.


1899


Lowell Normal. .


8 00


Minot's Corner


Eva Bassett.


1899


Framingham Normal


8 00


Parkerville


Jennie Stowell.


1899


Fitchburg Normal .


8 00


Nashoba


Sara A. Wood


1900


Lowell Normal ..


8 00


.


.


.


.


.


..


.


..


.


.


( Principal .


William E. Frost.


1872


Bowdoin, '72.


STATISTICS FOR 1899-1900.


No.


NAME OF SCHOOL.


Grades.


Weeks of school.


Enrollment.


ship.


Average member-


ance.


Average attend-


Per cent. of at-


Number between


Number between


Number over 15.


1


Academy .


9-12


39


38


34.6


32.85


92.8


2


6


32


2


Eighth Grade.


8


36


29


25.6


23


89.8


18


20


9


3


Centre Intermediate.


4-6


36


42


35.13


32.4


92


36


40


2


4


Centre Primary . .


1-3


36


35


29.62


25.45


85.9


23


35


0


5


Graniteville Grammar


6-7


36


28


25


23


92


27


27


1


6


Graniteville Intermediate ....


4-5


36


39


34


30


88


39


39


0


7


Graniteville Upper Primary ..


1-2


36


44


36


34


94


12


44


0


8


Graniteville Lower Primary ..


4-7


36


26


23.2


22.3


91.8


26


26


0


9


Forge Grammar.


1-3


36


52


45


36.8


81.9


39


52


0


10


Forge Primary .


1-7


36


34


24.3


20.9


86


22


33


1


11


Nabnasset


1-7


36


21


20.2


17.2


85


13


21


0


12


Stony Brook.


1-7


36


15


13.7


12.2


89


12


15


0


13


Minot's Corner


1-7


36


18


15.7


13.5


85.9


16


18


0


14


Parkerville


1-7


36


16


13.2


11.7


88.8


10


16


0


15


Nashoba .


1-7


36


10


6.9


6.6


91.9


9


10


0


16


Wright .


..


Totals


..


.


579


481


25.75


23.11


89.7


337


436


45


-


2-3


36


34


30


28


93


33


34


0


1


.


tendance.


7 and 14.


5 and 15.


STATISTICS FOR FALL AND WINTER, 1900-1901.


No.


NAME OF SCHOOL.


Number enrolled.


ship.


Average member-


ance.


Average attend-


tendance.


Per cent. of at-


7 and 14.


Number between


Number between


Number over 15.


1


Academy .


39


33


32.6


90


7


15


24


2


Centre Grammar.


34


32


30.5


92


19


29


4


3


Centre Intermediate


28


25.9


23


89


27


27


1


4


Centre Primary . .


32


26.4


22.7


86


20


32


0


5


Graniteville Grammar


29


28


24.6


87.5


24


29


0


6


Graniteville Intermediate.


38


35.48


30.45


85.8


38


38


0


7


Graniteville Upper Primary ..


32


27.5


24.5


89


28


4


0


8


Graniteville Lower Primary.


42


34


29.6


86.7


15


42


0


9


Forge Grammar.


59


49.87


45


90.6


41


58


0


10


Forge Primary.


26


21.37


20.5


89.8


19


27


0


11


Nabnassett .


20


18.47


15


83


16


19


1


12


Stony Brook ..


16


16


14.4


90


11


16


0


13


Minot's Corner.


15


13.7


11.78


85.7


15


15


0


14


Parkerville .


14


12.8


11.5


89.8


8


14


0


15


Nashoba


Totals ..


.. ....


449


26.48


23.82


89.9


311


390


30


.


..


.


... .


...


..


..


.


25


22.9


21.4


93.7


23


25


0


.


. .


.


.


.


.


.


1


5 and 15.


INDEX.


Officers of the Town of Westford, 1900


Page. 3


Births


6


Marriages .


7


Deaths


8


Town Clerk's Report on Dogs


10


Special Town Meeting, Feb. 24, 1900


12


Annual Town Meeting, 1900 .


13


Special Town Meeting, April 14, 1900


18


State Election, November 6, 1900


19


Assessors' Report


22


Tax Collector's Report


.


27


Report of Tree Warden


40


Selectmen's Report .


44


List of Jurors


83 84


Report of Overseers of the Poor


85


Treasurer's Report


92


Auditor's Report


94


Library Report .


99


List of Books added to the Library During the Financial Year 1900-1901


105


Report of Commissioners of Public Burial Grounds


119


Warrant for Town Meeting


126


Report of School Committee


1


School Committee, 1900-1901 .


2


Annual Report .


3


Financial Statement


6


Report of Superintendent of Schools


10


Report of the Academy


16


Report of Supervisor of Music


19


Truant Officer's Report 20


School Calendar, 1901-1902


21


Program of Grammar School Graduating Exercises


22


Roll of Honor


26


List of Teachers, 1900-1901


.


.


28


Statistics for 1899-1900 . .


29


Statistics for Fall and Winter, 1900-1901


30


.


.


Program of Academy Graduation Exercises


24


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Board of Health


ANNUAL REPORTS - TOWN of WESTFORD


AL50


TOWN WARRANT


FOR ANNUAL


TOWN MEETING TO IC HELD


MARCH 17.


1902


For the Year Ending March 1. 1902-


ANNUAL REPORTS


OF THE


TOWN OF WESTFORD


FOR THE


YEAR ENDING MARCH 1, 1902.


ALSO


WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING


TO BE HELD MARCH 17, 1902.


WEST


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LOWELL. MASS. COURIER-CITIZEN COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1902.


OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF WESTFORD, 1901.


Town Clerk. * GILMAN J. WRIGHT. Selectmen.


GEORGE W. HEYWOOD. Term expires March, 1902


WESLEY O. HAWKES, Secretary . · Term expires March, 1903


SHERMAN H. FLETCHER, Chairma Term expires March, 1904


Assessors.


J. WILLARD FLETCHER Term expires March, 1902 SAMUEL L. TAYLOR. Term expires March, 1903


GEORGE H. HARTFORD, Chairman Term expires March, 1904


Overseers of the Poor.


CLARENCE R. P. DECATUR. Term expires March, 1902


ALBERT R. CHOATE, Secretary Term expires March, 1903


LEONARD W. WHEELER, Chairman Term expires March, 1904


Treasurer. NAHUM H. WRIGHT.


Collector of Taxes. ARTHUR L. PRIOR. Auditor. HUGH F. LEITH.


Constables.


JOHN A. HEALY, EUGENE DE ROEHN. 1


Field Drivers.


PETER NORRIS, HENRY LABUN.


Neither of the Field Drivers qualified. Fence Viewers.


ALVIN G. POLLEY, ALMON S. VOSE,


AUGUSTUS BUNCE. Tree Warden. WILLIAM H. H. BURBECK. School Committee.


ELBERT H. FLAGG. Term expires March, 1902 FRANK H. HILDRETH Term expires March, 1902


GEORGE H. HARTFORD. Term expires March, 1903


HOMER M. SEAVEY, Secretary. .Term expires March, 1903 ALBERT R. CHOATE, Chairman Term expires March, 1904 JOHN C. ABBOT Term expires March, 1904


* Deceased January 23. Edward Fisher appointed Town Clerk, pro tempore.


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Trustees of J. V. Fletcher Library.


WILLIAM E. FROST, Chairman Term expires March, 1902


ADELINE M. KITTREDGE Term expires March, 1903


CATHERINE A. KEBLER. Term expires March, 1904


Librarian. MARY P. BUNCE.


Commissioners of Public Burial Grounds.


GEORGE T. DAY


Term expires March, 1902


GEORGE W. HEYWOOD. · Term expires March, 1903


MELBOURNE F. HUTCHINS Term expires March, 1904


Measurers of Wood and Bark and Surveyors of Lumber.


THOMAS E. SYMMES, HORACE E. GOULD,


WILLIAM W. JOHNSON, JOHN A. HEALY,


ALONZO H. SUTHERLAND,


MICHAEL L. McGLINCHEY,


WESLEY O. HAWKES, ALFRED WOODBURY, DANIEL H. SHEEHAN, ARTHUR L. PRIOR, .


GILMER STONE.


Messrs. Sutherland, Hawkes, Sheehan and Woodbury did not qualify.


Police Officers.


AI BICKNELL, WILLIAM H. PETHERICK,


CLARENCE R. P. DECATUR, LINCOLN A. REDDICK,


SAMUEL H. BALCH, ANTHONY H. SAUNDERS, MARK M. MORRISON.


Officers to Enforce Law Against Sunday Hunting and Fishing. CLARENCE R. P. DECATUR, JOHN A. HEALY,


SAMUEL H. BALCH, LINCOLN A. REDDICK, MARK M. MORRISON. . Fire Wards.


GILMER STONE, JOHN A. HEALY,


SAMUEL H. BALCH, HARRY L. NESMITH, HENRY A. FLETCHER. Mr. Stone did not accept the office. Forest Fire Wards.


W. H. H. BURBECK, EDWARD PRESCOTT.


Mr. Prescott resigned and Alvan Fishor was appointed to fill the vacancy.


Inspector of Animals. GEORGE T. DAY.


Measurer of Grain. LEWIS J. MARDEN.


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Weighers of Coal.


CHARLES E. WHIDDEN,


WILLIAM W. JOHNSON,


HENRY J. HEALY, JOHN M. FLETCHER, JOHN A. HEALY,


J. HERBERT FLETCHER,


REUBEN E. REDDING.


H. J. Healy did not qualify. Sealer of Weights and Measures. W. H. H. BURBECK. Registrars of Voters.


NELSON L. TUTTLE, Chairman. Term expires April 30, 1902 QUINCY W. DAY Term expires April 30, 1903


*OSCAR R. SPALDING. Term expires April 30, 1904 + GILMAN J. WRIGHT, Clerk, ex officio.


* Resigned February 1. Alfred Woodbury appointed, term to expire April 30. 1904.


+ Deceased. Edward Fisher, Clerk, ex officio.


Precinct Officers.


PRECINCT 1. - Warden, George H. Hartford; Deputy Warden, Homer M. Seavey; Clerk, John M. Fletcher; Deputy Clerk, J. Herbert Fletcher; Inspectors, T. Arthur E. Wilson, W. H. H. Burbeck; Deputy Inspectors, Harry L. Nesmith, C. R. P. Decatur; Tellers, W. F. Balch, Edward Fisher.


PRECINCT 2. - Warden, Daniel E. Splain; Deputy Warden, Wil- liam Wall; Clerk, Walter C. Wright; Deputy Clerk, William H. Petherick; Inspectors, Alfred T. W. Prinn, Joseph Wall; Deputy Inspectors, Samuel H. Balch, Albert R. Wall.


PRECINCT 3. -- Warden, Thomas F. Dunn; Deputy Warden, Peter McGlinchey; Clerk, William R. Taylor; Deputy Clerk, Samuel L. Taylor; Inspectors, Edson G. Boynton, Amos B. Polley; Deputy Inspectors, Henry B. Read, James H. O'Brien.


Superintendent of Streets. BENJAMIN F. DAY. /Agent for Burial of Deceased Soldiers and Sailors. GEORGE T. DAY.


Undertakers.


ALBERT P. RICHARDSON,


JOHN A. HEALY.


Superintendent of Almshouse. SAMUEL H. BALCH.


Janitor of Town House and Library Building. AI BICKNELL.


Committee to Appraise Property at Town Farm. WILLIAM L. WOODS, HENRY J. MURPHY, HORACE E. GOULD.


Births Recorded by the Town Clerk of Westford, A. D. 1901.


DATE.


NAME.


PARENTS' NAMES.


Aug. 18,


Baker, Leo


Charles and Rose (Norman)


July I.


Billson, Helen


Amos and Eva (Clarke) .


Feb. 18, Byron, Laura Violet


Joseph D. and Albertina (LeClair) . Julian A. and Lucy K. (Abbot).


July 8, Cameron, Marjory .


Oct. 24.


Carkin, Helen Gertrude


James R. and Eva A. (Barton) ..


Jan.


27,


Champaign, Clifford


Louis and Mary (Denome) ..


June


14,


Colburn, Eleanor Stearns


July 15,


Comey, Hattie Blanche


July 23, Dane, Mabel Gertrude


Mar. 15,


Decatur, Freddie Joshua


Nov. 2, Defoe, Edward Gerald


Sept. 17,


Elliot, Michael.


Nov. 10,


Fletcher, Samuel Alfred.


July 21,


Good, Myrtle May


Oct.


18,


Gower, Catherine Alice.


May 14,


Grimley, Etta May.


May 14, Grimley. Josephine Frances


Aug. 30,


Haley, Myrtle D.


Aug. 19, Hedman, Edwin Arthur Ferdinan. Houle, Peter


Dec. 14,


Johnson, Alfred .


Mar. II,


Johnson, Carl Edward Lawton


Dec. 28. Johnson. Alice Elizabeth


April 13,


Langley, Mary . .


Richard E. and Polly ( Burnett) .


July


Lord, Mabel Florence .


Feb. 5,


McCoy, Henry Albert.


June 5,


Mills, Gertrude Carr


Jan. 24,


Morton, Georgie Irene


June 21,


Morton, William F


April 12, Mosek, Florence R


Mar. 30.


Mulno, Mary F


Sept. 6,


O'Brien, Paul Johnson


Sept. 6.


O'Brien, Pauline Foley.


July 31.


Osgood, Leon


Aug. 3, Parmenter, Francis Fletcher


Aug. 10,


Payne, Claire Beatrice


May 25,


Phelps, Bruce Allen


Aug. 24,


Ploudre, Mary Ann. .


Sept. II,


Precious, Caroline Edith .


May 30,


Prior. Mildred Beatrice


Feb. 24.


Provost, Leo Francis.


June 15,


Ricard, Carine .


Honara and Marieloise ( Benoi) . Joseph and Etta (Smith)


Feb. 2,


Robicho, William Leo


Aug. II,


Saunders, Doris Esther


July 29,


Shea, Irene Frances


Eugene and Lucy (Boucher) . Fred W. and Alma E. (Agnew) Joseph F. and Inez F. (Kimball) ... John and Elizabeth S. (Wheeler) William and Rosa (Senke)


Jan. 27,


Suhavick, Edward. .


Gilbert and Delia (('aron)


Dec. 24,


Wall, Raymond Agnew


Joseph and Maria ( Agnew )


Sept. 6, Watson, William Day.


Sebastian B. and Bessie M. (Day) .. Oct. 4, Wood. Mabel Florence Henry and Clara (Rushworth) ... . . April 25, Woods. Clifford William.


William L. and Carrie L. ( Fifield) ..


Amede and Sarah (Norman) . .. John and Hannah (Yorkola) ... Frank and Mary (Akerson)


William H. and Amy 1 .. ( Peckens) . Joseph and Annie (Perrin) .


Mar. IO,


Longbottom, William Arthur


David and Ada (Bishop) .


16, Aug. 26,


McCarty, Ruby Ann.




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