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James McCaw,
Minnie Demond,
T. Nuting,
Florence Green,
A. E. Phelps, E. Powers,
L. Hart, M. Hart, Ethel Lombard,
L. F. Rindge,
Leo T. Rock.
Report of Superintendent of Schools.
To the School Committee of Wilbraham:
GENTLEMEN : The eighth annual report of the Superintendent of schools is herewith presented.
The town employs twelve teachers. Two are from a neighboring state, three are normal school graduates, three are from city training schools, four are graduates from Wesleyan Academy.
Three of the last named class received training and served as un- paid assistants in our own schools prior to their engagement as reg- ular teachers. Half the entire corps was new at the beginning of the fall term though only one was entirely inexperienced.
We have had one apprentice in our schools each year since the plan of home training was adopted.
This year Miss Effie Morgan, a graduate of Wesleyan Academy in 1899, is now serving such apprenticeship.
Candidates for this position must have full high school education, must give six months to actual observation of the work and assist- ance to the regular teachers in such schools as the superintendent may indicate, and must be ready to act as unpaid substitutes when- ever their services are needed. If called to substitute in some other town of this district, as has been the case this winter, they receive remuneration from that town.
THE FOLLOWING TEACHERS HAVE LEFT US DURING THE YEAR.
School
Teacher
Elected
Left
No. 1.
Miss Alice Ferguson.
June, 1900.
No. 2.
* Miss Alice Howard.
June, 1988. September, 1899. September, 1899.
June, 1900.
No. 3.
t Mrs. Minnie Otis, Miss Winifred Miller.
April, 1897.
June, 1900.
No. 4.
t Miss Gertrude Ward.
July, 1900.
January, 1901.
No. 6.
Mrs. A. F. Calkins.
June, 1900.
No. 7.
§ Miss Leonora Howe.
May, 1899. January, 1900.
November, 1900.
June, 1900.
No. 4.
* Teaching in Ludlow. t At Sixteen Acres, Springfield. # In Quincy. § In Berlin.
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PRESENT CORPS OF TEACHERS.
Schools.
Teachers.
Elected.
Educated.
1.
Florence Underhill. Aug., 1900.
Lowell Normal.
2
Ida Blair ....
Jan., 1900.
Quincy Training.
2.
Grace Nichols.
July, 1900.
Wilbraham Academy.
3
Bertha Twitchell ...
Aug., 1900
Paris Hill Academy, Paris Hill, Me.
4.
Dora Merrick.
Sept., 1893.
Wilbraham Academy.
4
Elsie Martin.
Jan., 1901.
Quincy High and Training Schools.
5 ..
Stella Greene
May, 1898.
Wilbraham Academy.
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Georgia Woodward Aug., 1900.
Lowell Normal.
Marthia Bowdish ....
Nov., 1900.
Vermont Academy.
The school year throughout the state now opens in September and closes in June. Our schools are in session thirty-six weeks.
The law requiring attendance of children between the ages of seven and fourteen for the entire time the schools are kept open has been 'more thoroughly enforced this year. In some instances where absence has been caused by lack of suitable clothing, it has . taken some time to bring the matter before the proper officials. In others, ignorance of the law or of the power and disposition to en- force it, has brought down the attendance.
A class of applicants was examined and admitted to Wesleyan Academy last June. Eighteen town students, which is only 10 per cent of the total public school membership, are now registered there. Nearly all who reach the ninth grade enter the academy .
The falling off is below the upper classes of the grammar grades, which shows that a large proportion leave before they have obtained a common school education, a loss they will sadly regret in future years. Can the children of this town afford to ignore the privileges which nearly one-third the children of the state are enjoying ?
The failure to provide for special teachers of music and drawing has resulted in serious loss. In some schools the pupils have re- tained what they gained last year ; in some they have forgotten a large part of what they had previously practiced.
The sum saved by the children at The Pines now amounts to $123.75 ; $61.97 has been invested in savings banks.
Through the kindness of the Springfield librarian, I have secured sixty discarded but carefully selected volumes for the benefit of chil- dren living at a distance from our Public Library. A box with cover-or door-shelves, lock and key, labeled " Traveling Library, No. 1," has been filled and placed in one of our schools. The
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teacher has a book in which she records the dates of delivery and return, and any observation in regard to the interest manifested or suggestions as to the course of procedure.
The plan and purpose are indicated by the word traveling. When read the collection will be taken to any other school or community which may ask for it and replaced by a fresh supply. No fines or penalties for failure to return books at a specified time have or will be imposed. They are intended to instruct and give pleasure and the borrowers are merely requested to read, enjoy, and return in as good a condition as possible that others may have similar pleasure.
Six of these libraries are in circulation in another town of this district but the experiment is recent here.
Since my last report was written I have made one hundred forty- four visits, an average of twelve to each school, held conferences with teachers, and spent several days in looking up the previous work and record of the seven new teachers engaged this year. I think that another year the conditions will demand fewer visits, more office work, and an increased number of general teachers' meetings.
Respectfully submitted,
MARY L. POLAND.
NAMES OF PUPILS NEITHER ABSENT NOR TARDY.
THREE TERMS.
Bolles, Hazel Martin, Julius
Thompson, William
FOR TWO TERMS.
Bell, Esther
La Broad, Anna
Bell, Vera
Leahy, John
Carney, Nancy
Newhall, Fales
Darrah, Robert
Farr, Elsie
Pease, Roy Richardson, Roland
Farr, Albert
Shearer, Hazel
Gurney, Raymond Heath, Hazel
Stephens, Constance Thompson, Alice
Thompson, Charles 1
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FOR ONE TERM.
Allen, Harry
Leahy, Georgina
Edward
Libby, Ralph
Backus, Robert
Lombard, Edna
Batchelder, Mason
Luby, Frank Manson, John
Bell, Charles
Meader, Walter
Bolles, Hazel
Monehan, John
Carney, Edward
Newhall, Harriet
Connors, Patrick
Parker
Edson, Ethel
O'Brien, John O'Connor, Dennis
Fuller, Raymond Gebo, Eva
Pease, Grace
Powers, May
Era
Richardson, Walter
Ella
Wilbur
Stephens, Elsie 66 George
La Broad, Dora
Wright, Frank
Baron, George
Clarence
By-Laws FOR THE TOWN OF WILBRAHAM.
SECTION 1. No person shall drive, wheel, draw or push any cart, wheelbarrow, bicycle, tricycle or other vehicle of burden or of pleasure upon or along any sidewalk or foot-path in the Town, ex- cept for the purpose of crossing such side-walk or foot-path to go to or out of some adjoining enclosure ; provided this section shall not apply to children's hand carriages or hand sleds carrying children only and drawn by hand.
SEC. 2. Three or more persons shall not stand together or near each other in any street or on any bridge, foot-walk or sidewalk in the Town so as to obstruct the free passage for foot passengers ; and any person or persons so standing shall move on immediately after a request so to do, made by any member of the board of Selectmen, Chief of Police, or any Police Officer or Constable of the Town.
SEC. 3. No person shall be or remain upon the steps of any church, hall, hotel or public building, or in any hall, space or way leading thereto, so as to incommode or obstruct the passage to and from such church, hall, hotel, or building. Every person so being and remaining when ordered by any member of the board of Selectmen, Chief of Police, Police Officer, Constable, owner, agent, or other person having charge of said church, hotel, hall, or public building shall immediately depart therefrom.
SEC. 4. No person shall behave in a rude or disorderly manner, or use indecent, profane or insulting language in or upon any street, lane, alley, bridge, or other public place in the Town.
SEC. 5. No person shall, within the limits of any highway in the Town, play at any game of ball, or engage in any other game, amusement or exercise interfering with the free, safe and conven- ient use of such highway by any person traveling or passing along the same.
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SEC. 6. No person shall coast, course or slide upon any board, sled or other thing upon any highway within the Town.
SEC. 7. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of the pre- ceding sections, shall for each and every offense forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than two dollars nor more than twenty dollars ; provided that no person shall be prosecuted for any offense men- tioned in the preceding sections unless complaint for the same shall be instituted and commenced within six months from the time of the commission of such offense.
Town Warrant.
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting.
ART. 2. To hear and act on the reports of the Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, School Committee and other town officers.
ART. 3. To fix the compensation of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 4. To determine the manner of repairing the highways and bridges for the ensuing year.
ART. 5. To choose a Town Clerk and Treasurer, one Selectman for three years, who shall also be one of the Overseers of the Poor, one Assessor for three years and one for one year to fill vacancy, five Constables, four Fence Viewers, one Auditor, one School Com- mittee for three years, Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year, one Library Trustee for three years, all on one ballot ; a Tree Warden for the ensuing year and all other town officers.
ART. 6. To decide by ballot, which shall be " Yes " or " No," the question, " Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"
ART. 7. To raise such sums of money as may be deemed neces- sary for defraying the expenses of the town for the ensuing year and appropriate the same, and vote how the same shall be raised.
ART. 8. To see if the town will accept the list of jurors as revised by the Selectmen.
ART. 9. To see if the town will authorize its Treasurer to bor- row such sums of money as may be sanctioned by the Selectmen, the same to be paid from taxes.
ART. 10. To see if the town will provide for the adequate light- ing of the streets in town.
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ART. 11. To see if the town will instruct their selectmen to prosecute any person or persons selling or transporting intoxicating liquors within this town, contrary to the laws of this commonwealth, or take any action in regard to the same.
ART. 12. To see what disposition the town will make of the dog fund of 1900.
ART. 13. To see if the town will grant money for the proper observance of Memorial Day.
ART. 14. To see if the town will appropriate money for the care and winding of the town clock.
ART. 15. To see if the town will provide for special instruction iu music, and raise money for the same.
ART. 16. To see if the town will lay a sewer from a point on the Boston Road, where a private way running north and southeast of house occupied by J. W. Baldwin connects with said Boston Road, to a point on said Boston Road near Post Office connecting with the sewer which crosses land of W. L. Collins estate and owned by the town.
ART. 17. To see if the town will take any action in regard to re- pairing or building a new bridge over the canal at North Wil- braham.
ART. 18. To see if the town will adopt a set of by-laws.
ART. 19. To see if the town will establish a salary for the sealers of weights and measures, in accordance with chapter 65, section 23, of the Public Statutes.
ART. 20. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to sign a release to secure a section of state road.
WILBRAHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY
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