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FOR YEAR ENDING
FEBRUARY 15, 1908
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
SELECTMEN, TREASURER
HIGHWAY AGENTS
AND
BOARD OF EDUCATION
OF THE TOWN OF
NORTH HAMPTON
FOR YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 15, 1908
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Town Officers
Moderator. JOHN W. WARNER. Town Clerk, ROY R. ROLLINS. Selectmen,
OTIS S. BROWN, IRVING W. BROWN, ARTHUR E. SEAVEY.
Representative, LEVI W. FOGG. Highway Agents,
CHESTER E. SEAVEY, ARTHUR A. BROWN. CHARLES F. SMITH. Supervisors of Check List,
ALBERT BACHELDER, JOHN L. SMITH, GEORGE D. BROWN.
Police and Constable, GEORGE E. PERKINS. Board of Health,
EBEN L. DALTON, ALBERT BACHELDER, HERBERT A. WHITE. Auditors,
JOSEPH O. HOBBS, FRED L. DOW.
School Board,
ALBERT E. LOCKE, WILLARD H. PHILBROOK, WILFRED J. CHEVALIER. Library Trustees,
FRED L. DOW, .
EBEN L. DALTON,
GEORGE A. BOYNTON.
Town Warrant
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. (L. S.)
To the Inhabitants of the Town of North Hampton, in the County of Rockingham, in said State, qualified to vote in Town Affairs :
You are hereby notified to meet at Town Hall in said North Hampton, on Tuesday, the tenth day of March next, at one of the clock in the afternoon, to act upon the follow- ing subjects :
I. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the year ensuing.
2. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray town charges for the ensuing year, and make ap- propriation of the same.
3. To see if the Town will vote to accept State Aid for Roads.
(By request) "To see if the Town will authorize the
4. Selectmen to arrange for a water supply for fire and muni- cipal purposes and what sum of money, if any, the Town will vote for the same."
5. (By request). "To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to arrange and adjust with the Boston & Maine Railroad in relation to repair and care of approaches to crossings."
Given under our hands and seal this fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eight.
OTIS S. BROWN, IRVING W. BROWN,
Selectmen of
ARTHUR E. SEAVEY, North Hampton.
A true copy of Warrant. Attest : OTIS S. BROWN, IRVING W. BROWN,
Selectmen of
ARTHUR E. SEAVEY,
North Hampton.
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Selectmen's Report
INVENTORY. 1
Polls, 223
$22,300
Land and buildings
634,198
Horses, 268
17,140
Oxen, 6
3IO
Cows, 587
15,746
Neats, 92
1,818
Sheep, 56
224
Vehicles, II4
4,590
Stock in corporations in this state
17,100
Stock in trade
5,300
Light and power
3,500
Lumber and wood
11,190
Mills and machinery
3,000
$738,3II
Resident valuation
$541,057.00
Resident. tax
8,115.85
Non-resident valuation
197,254.00
Non-resident tax
2,958.81
State, County, Town, School and Highway taxes, $1.50 on $100.
Amount committed to Collector
$11,074.66
Uncollected Feb. 15, 1908 176.50
Village District Tax, .20 on $100.
Amount committed to Collector
$501.27
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Hogs, 180
1,595
Stock in public funds
300
STATE AND COUNTY.
Paid state tax $1,535.00
County tax 2,229.50
DISCOUNT. $3,764.50
Paid Collector, discount on taxes 442.75
TOWN POOR.
Paid N. H. State Hospital, board and clothing for Alfred H. Brown . $56.36
ABATEMENTS.
Paid Alfred Stavers, land not owned $ 2.80
Benj. Brown, poll tax, two years 2.90
Everett Chick, poll tax 1.50
Horace E. Fife, poll tax
1.50
Joseph Leavitt, poll tax, two years 2.90
George Moore, poll tax 1.50
Newell Jenness, poll tax 1.50
Lucy Carswell, soldier's widow
8.19
Arthur Blake, soldier
Thomas E. Marston, error in tax 45
15.00
Robert Fraser, land not owned, two
years
5.88
David J. Marston, error in tax 18.24
Horace W. Carter, poll tax 1.50
$63.86
SCHOOLS.
Paid School appropriation, by law $2,220.00
Literary fund 62.22
Dog licenses II0.42
Proportion of school fund 200.00
Tuition for pupils at Exeter 67.00
Tuition for pupils at Hampton
442.00
$3,101.64
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ROADS AND BRIDGES.
Paid George L. Garland, breaking roads 1907 $ 29.85
Robert L. Mitchell railing bridge .... II.95
Warren B. Moulton, lumber for bridge 9.96
Eben L. Dalton, breaking roads, 1907 87.47
Chester E. Seavey, see report
436.95
Arthur A. Brown, see report
356.4I
Charles F. Smith, see report
470.10
Irving W. Brown, labor on road and sidewalk
I60.2I
STATE ROAD.
Paid Percy Perkins, labor $ II.25
Frank A. Marston, labor
8.40
David J. Lamprey, labor
129.45
George E. Taylor, labor 66.80
Fred L. Shaw, labor
14.85
Frank H. Leavitt, labor
47.40
George A. Tourtillott, labor
83.60
J. Allan Fenwick, labor
34.00
Fred C. Leavitt, labor
51.50
Eben L. Dalton, labor
128.35
Justin E. Drake, labor
39.15
W. H. Philbrook, labor
4.50
James F. Hobbs, labor
18.75
Frank E. Moore, labor
42.00
Amos S. Atkinson, labor
12.00
Fred J. Moore, labor
18.90
Elmer Smith, labor
45.00
George E. Moulton, labor 4.00
George L. Garland, labor
62.40
Robert L. Mitchell, labor
47.40
Simon H. Leavitt, labor 64.50
Charles F. Smith, labor 96.40
Russell Marston, labor
8.00
Chester E. Seavey, labor
57.90
Irving W. Brown, labor
56.21
Fred A. Drew, labor
3.50
Clarence L. Fogg, labor
16.63
$1,562.90
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John W. Mace, labor 13.75
E. P. Blake, labor
4.66
Benj. F. Simpson, labor 33.00
Harry Carter, labor
3.25
Hiram Farrell, labor ... .
41.33
Horace Moulton, labor . ..
17.50
Andrew S. Marston, labor 14.40
Arthur A. Brown, labor .. . . 90.50
Walter E. Taylor, labor
74.30
Eli G. Bunker, labor
54.40
James A Bunker, labor
36.47
Percy W. Locke, labor
12.25
Walter E. Locke, labor
14.00
Otis S. Brown, labor
42.00
Morris H. Moulton, gravel
100.00
Albert Bachelder, team and sprinkler
10.00
$1,734.65
227I I-2 yards of gravel put on road.
LIBRARY.
Paid Annetta E. Marston, land $1,000.00
J. Lawrence Berry, architect I00.00
Irving W. Brown, contract
1,350.00
Warren B. Moulton, contract
2,050.00
Warren B. Moulton, hardware, furni- ture and extra work 208.47
Fred C. Leavitt, grading
21.00
Fred L. Shaw, grading
26.25
Amos Atkinson, grading
2.00
William Jones, grading
1.75
Robert L. Mitchell, grading
2.00
James F. Leavitt, grading
4.00
Henry E. Clark, grading
4.00
Elmer Smith, grading
4.00
Frank E. Moore
1.75
C. C. Dalton, grading
2.00
W. E. Tuttle, wiring
25.00
S. A. Dow, lamps, shovels, etc
7.45
Ordway Heating Co., furnace 125.00
Granite State Fire Ins. Co
54.00
. $4,988.67
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Paid John Templeton, printing town
reports,
$29.00
John W. Berry, guide board 1.25
J. G. Mace, Memorial day 25.00
J W. Barrett, fence at East ceme- tery
72.50
John W. A. Green, recording deed. .
.72
Eli G. Bunker, painting fence at East cemetery
2.25
George Asselin, watching fire
6.00
J. Allan Fenwick, watchman
2.00
George F. Marston, guide board . .
1.25
William A Grover, running town line
5.00
David J. Marston, watering trough, two years
6.00
Rockingham Light and Power Co, street lighting, season of 1907
65.00
W. F. Simpson, watching fire 2.00
S. A. Dow, bell rope .76
1.50
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Arthur E. Seavey, blacksmith work Dr. H. A. White, record of births and deaths 4.00
O. B. Fogg, watering trough, two
years
6.00
Fred L. Shaw, watchman at church ..
2.00
George L. Seavey, postage and print- ing
8.90
Otis S. Brown, expenses to Concord
3.00
Edward M. Smith, surveying
4.25
S. A. Dow, powder and fuse
.3I
S. A. Dow, paint
1.70
S. A. Dow, hayseed
.68
Otis S. Brown, express and stationery
3.10
Newburyport Herald Co., printing catalogues 35.40
Newburyport Herald Co., printing
notices on brown tail moths .. 1.75
Newburyport Herald Co., printing
two order and receipt books .. 4.40
Marion Lane, cataloguing books . . . 6.00
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S. A. Dow, stamps .
5.60
Mae R. Moulton, cataloguing books 7.00 Collector's book 2.25
CEMETERIES. $316.57
Paid Orrin B. Leavitt, care of Centre ceme- tery
70.00
George A. Page, care of South ceme- tery 5.00
$75.00
OFFICIAL SERVICES.
Paid Levi W. Fogg, librarian
$55.00
Roy R. Rollins, town clerk and treas-
urer
40.00
Orrin B. Leavitt, hearse warden
16.00
George E. Perkins, constable
21.50
Dr. H. A. White, board of health ..
19.10
Eben L. Dalton, board of health ..
6.00
Albert Bachelder, board of health . .
6.00
Albert Bachelder, supervisor
12.00
George L. Seavey, collector of taxes
60.00
Arthur E. Seavey, selectman
30.00
Irving W. Brown, selectman
32.00
Otis S. Brown, selectman
50.00
$347.60
DISBURSEMENTS.
State and County
$3,764.50
Discount
442.75
Town poor
56.36
Abatements
63.86
Schools
3,101.64
Roads and bridges
1,562.90
State road
1,734.65
Library
4,988.67
Miscellaneous
316.57
IO
Cemeteries Official services
75.00
347.60
$16,454.50
Cost of removing brown tail moth nests
$180.40
RECEIPTS.
On hand from last year $1,208.02
Received from uncollected taxes, 1907
89.39
·Note 2,000.00
Insurance tax
55.50
Railroad tax
132.48
Savings Bank tax
1,019.98
Literary fund
62.22
Proportion of school fund
200.00
Cemetery lots
45.00
State aid for roads
469.81
Town of Rye
5.75
George E. Perkins, for
cemetery fence . .
25.00
Interest on cemetery fund.
65.53
Dog licenses I 10.42
Interest on deposit
68.44
Collector of taxes
10,898.07
$16,455.61
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Cash on hand
$ I.II
Uncollected taxes
176.59
Due on town notes
$177.70 $2,000.00
Balance against town $1,822.30
Total joint fund of town and state for state road
$1,754.72
Expended on state road
1,734.65
Balance due by town and state $20.07
Balance due by town 9.24
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Balance due by state IO 83
Cemetery trust fund $2,000.00
One thousand dollars in Portsmouth Savings Bank, and one thousand dollars in Strafford Savings Bank at Dover, N. H.
OTIS S. BROWN, Selectmen
IRVING W. BROWN, of
ARTHUR E. SEAVEY, North Hampton.
AUDITORS' REPORT.
We, the undersigned, having examined the books and the accounts of the Selectmen, Treasurer and Cemetery Trust Fund, find them correct with proper vouchers.
JOSEPH O. HOBBS, ? Auditors. FRED L. DOW,
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Treasurer's Report
Dr.
Cash on hand $1,208.02
Amount received from George L. Seavey,
Collector of Taxes
10,987.46
Amount received from town notes 2,000.00
Amount received from dog licenses
Amount received from cemetery lots 110.42
45.00
Amount received from interest on ceme- tery fund
65.53
Amount received from interest on deposits
68.44
Amount received from State for roads
469.81
5.75
Amount received from Town of Rye . Amount received from G. E. Perkins for cemetery fund
25.00
Amount received from State insurance tax
55.50
Amount received from State railroad tax ..
I32.48
Amount received from State savings bank tax
1,019.98
Amount received from State literary fund
62.22
Amount received from State proportion of school fund 200.00
$16,455.61
Cr.
Amount paid State tax .$1,535.00
Amount paid County tax
2,229.50
Amount paid Selectmen's orders
12,690.00
Cash on hand
I.II
$16,455.61
ROY R. ROLLINS, Town Treasurer. North Hampton, N. H., February 22, 1908.
Report of the Library Building Committee
At the Town Meeting of March, 1907, it was voted that a library building be erected at a cost not exceeding $5,000, and a building committee was chosen to carry out the vote.
The first duty of the committee was to procure land as near the depot as possible so as to accommodate all the peo- ple of the town. After several sites had been considered, a piece of land was purchased, which was deemed most suitable for the purpose required.
The next proposition was to get a plan that would come within the appropriation. After considering several plans and buildings, we selected a plan drawn by Mr. J. Lawrence Berry of Boston, a library building on a similar plan having been erected by him in North Woburn, Mass.
The bids for the erection of the building according to Mr. Berry's plans and specifications varied from $3 400 to $6,000. The contract was awarded to Mr. Warren B. Moul- ton for the woodwork and Mr. Irving W. Brown for the stone work, being the lowest bidders. Your committee was pleased that both of the contractors should be citizens of the town. They have done their work in a very thorough and satis- factory manner.
We think that we have erected a building which is very commodious and an ornament to the town, and of which all may feel proud, for the sum of money we had to expend. We hope that the building will be lighted by electricity in the near future, as it is all wired for that purpose.
The land has been purchased, the building erected. a heating plant put in, the library furnished, and insured for three years, the total expense being covered by the appro- priation.
Our thanks are extended to all who have so generously assisted us in furnishing the building and grading the grounds. We hope all our citizens and summer residents will visit and inspect the library and give it a generous support.
OTIS S. BROWN, JOSEPH O. HOBBS, ARTHUR E. SEAVEY, LEVI W. FOGG,
Building Committee.
Report of the Library Trustees
The Trustees of North Hampton Library respectfully submit the following report and suggestions :
We take the report where the building committee leaves it.
The first work done was to clean the books. They were in bad shape. Many volumes are in a dilapidated con- dition. Those that are worth the cost are to be rebound. We decided to establish a modern system of cataloguing; our means being limited our first move was to learn the cost: we heard that Exeter had the best system around here.
We employed as good authority as we had in town to go to Exeter and get what information they could. The report was that it would take two persons two months to do the work. Then one of our board went to Boston to con- sult the library bureau; they would send a lady expert for one hundred dollars a month, and it would take her with a helper two months ; that made it impossible, with our means, to adopt any such system. The best we could do was to classify, index and number, giving authors, etc. That we have done, with the help of the librarian and two young ladies, at the expense of $13, including cleaning, moving and supplies use in the work. We had printed five hundred copies of the catalogue of books at the expense of $35.40. The number of books catalogued were 1562, not including magazines. As there have been no new books bought by the town for the last two years, we would suggest that a sum of not less than $200 be raised and appropriated by the town for books.
We will submit the following suggestions :
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In justice to those that made it possible that we could make the above report, we should be at least ungrateful in not placing before our taxpayers and the public what our building committee has done. We had no reason to expect them to work for nothing and find themselves, but they have done more than that ; they have not only given their services and personal expenses, but have contributed liberally towards the furnishing of the building, which placed them in a posi- tion to ask others to also contribute; that is what they have done. When the time came to do the grading they asked for volunteers to do it, and as far as we know none refused that was asked.
We would further suggest : That the town should cause to be placed in the library building something to com- memorate the faithful services of the building committee and the efficient work of the contractors.
We are not prepared at the present time to make sug- gestions as to how this should be accomplished, but will, at the coming election, recommend as to what may be done and at what cost.
FRED L. DOW', E. L. DALTON, Library GEO. A. BOYNTON, Trustees.
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Reports of Highway Agents
REPORT OF CHESTER E. SEAVEY.
Expenditures.
E. H. Dalton
$ 16.00
Morris Locke
8.00
R. L. Mitchell
34.60
Russell Marston
18.75
Geo. L. Garland
34.00
Geo. E. Moulton
9.00
Fred Neally
8.75
Chas. C. Dalton
7.25
James H. Riley
13.10
Frank Moore
20.50
Elmer Smith
11.25
David C. Smith
3.00
Irving Marston
5.25
Geo. A. Tourtillott
12.00
John Taylor 19.50
Cyrus Fogg
1.00
Clarence Fogg
5.25
Orice Moulton
3.50
Simon O. Lamprey
8.00
Percy Norton
3.50
J. H. Davis
5-75
Morris Moulton, gravel
1.00
Chester E. Seavey
84.75
$333.70
Labor on Bridges.
Geo. L. Garland
.$
3.00
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R. L. Mitchell
3.00
Chester E. Seavey 3.00
Labor on Manhole. $9.00
Teaming brick $ 1.50
Teaming sand and tile
·75
Geo. E. Moulton
2.70
Chester Seavey
2.70
$7.65
Breaking Roads, 1907.
Geo. L. Garland $ 2.45
R. L. Mitchell
2.45
Russell Marston 1.75
Irving W. Marston
1.75
E. L. Dalton
4.25
Chester E. Seavey
2.45
Cutting Brown Tail Moth Nests 1907.
Geo. E. Moulton
$ 6.00
R. L. Mitchell
5.25
Chester E Seavey
10.25
Cutting Brown Tail Moth Nests, 1908.
R. L. Mitchell
$ 16.50
Leon Berry
5.50
Thomas Moore
4.00
Chester E. Seavey
24.00
$50.00
$436.95
Receipts.
May 20., cash
$200.00
July 2,
cash
140.00
Feb. 15, cash
96.95
$436.95
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$15.10
$21.50
REPORT OF ARTHUR A. BROWN.
Expenditures.
Eli G. Bunker
$ 28.00
Edwin Page
22.75
James Page
12.25
James Bunker
1.75
E. L. Dalton
26.75
Payson Marston
14.50
Austin Lamprey
5.75
Geo. D. Cotton
14.75
Horace Moulton
3.50
Frank Sleeper
3.50
Herman Jenness
11.37
Goodwin Jenness
3.50
O. J. Moulton
3.50
Walter Locke
I.00
Geo. D. Brown
12.50
A. C. Brown
45.00
Geo. O. Moulton
5.00
Geo. White
3.00
Fred Brown
8.00
Roy Moulton
3.50
Geo. W Tarlton
15.00
Chester Fogg
9.00
Arthur A. Brown
112.54
$356.41
Labor on Roads.
Mill road
$120.63
Woodland road
90.50
Maple road
70.76
Locke's road
15.14
Little road
3.50
Atlantic avenue
8.38
Cutting brown tail moth nests
47.50
$356.4I
Receipts.
June 17, cash
$150.00
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Sept. 25, cash
I50.00
Feb. 15, cash 56.41
$356.4I
REPORT OF CHARLES F. SMITH.
Expenditures.
James F. Hobbs
$ 30.60
F. H. Leavitt
11.00
S. H. Leavitt 18.50
F. L. Shaw
14.50
J. E. Drake
43.80
L. W. Knowles
8.10
Leon Berry
8.00
Robert Whenal
8.00
J. L. Smith
12.50
F. J Moore
12.00
Frank Leavitt
12.10
D. C. Smith
3.00
Walter Parsley
1.75
J. Allen Fenwick
5.25
L. W. Knowles
3.75
H. Marston
5.15
Self, team and man
83.00
Christopher D. Moore
1.00
$282.00
Breaking Roads, 1907.
J. F. Hobbs $ 2.00
F. C. Leavitt
34.00
J, E. Drake
6.15
L. W. Knowles 4.80
F. Hendry
1.50
J. L. Smith
1.25
D. W. Knowles
1.50
Walter Parsley
3.00
Frank C. Norton
5.00
Stanley Knowles 2.50
R. Whenal
1.50
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Self, two men and teams 22.00
James Barton
2.00
F. O. Brown 4.00
$91.20
Cutting Brown Tail Moth Nests, 1907-1908.
J. E. Drake
$ 8.75
Stanley Knowles
12.35
Self, team and man
33.50
J. E. Walker
4.80
F. Simpson
2.00
$61.40
Cutting bushes and putting up rail
$
2.00
Repairs on State Road.
Self, team and man $ 25.00
Frank Hendry
8.5.0
$35.50
$470.10
Receipts.
May 22, cash
$250.00
June 19, cash
50.00
Feb. 15, cash
170.10
$470.10
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Report Superintendent of Schools
To the School Board of North Hampton :
I have the pleasure of submitting to you my first an- nual report.
Although I have been with you not quite six months. hardly time to learn your local conditions and needs, still I feel that much has been accomplished, even in this short time. No radical changes have been attempted. It is the little things that have been looked after, little things in fact but great in result. You must lay a good foundation if you expect your superstructure to stand. To build a house upon sand for a foundation is poor policy.
You desire to have good schools and have your eighth grade leave school fully as well equipped as are other eighth grades in, at least, similar schools and to have them as well if not better, qualified to enter Hampton Academy as are the Hampton pupils. In order to do this we must begin in the lower grades, yes, even in the primary grades, to im- prove our work. There must be good work done all along the line if we are in hopes to send out well prepared boys and girls.
Each year's work must be well done, each grade must have definite aims and results to accomplish and must ob- tain these results as nearly as possible.
The reading in the schools is not satisfactory. A great. change for the better has been made in the primary grades, even in the short six months. I wish every citizen in town could visit the primary room at the Center and hear the little folks. It would do their hearts good. We are going to send better readers and scholars from the primary room
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hereafter and consequently from the grammar schools. In my efforts to improve the work in the first four grades I have been most ably assisted by the teachers.
I am thoroughly convinced that scholars who cannot read well and understandingly cannot do good work in other subjects. It is impossible for them to get their history, geography and grammar lessons or much less do their arith- metic problems if they cannot read understandingly. Read- ing is the basis upon which all other studies rest; have poor readers and you have poor scholars and a poor school. Each primary grade ought to read, at least, two readers with more or less supplementary work. This is our policy and to be able to carry this out we must have next year, other sets of readers. Some supplementary reading has just been added. This should be increased next year until we have a good working supply of supplementary work suit- able to the various grades.
The seventh and eighth grades ought not to use much else but standard literature for their class reading, such as "Courtship of Miles Standish," Longfellow's "Evangeline," Whittier's "Snowbound" and others. It is too bad to let even our grammar boys and girls leave school without a knowledge and possible liking for such literature. We want to give our children just as broad and general an edu- cation along with the practical as possible. There has been an improvement all along the line, but there is still chance for greater improvement and a higher standard of schol- arship.
It is my purpose to strengthen our system of educa- tion by eliminating the conditions which are detrimental to progress.
Six months is hardly time to become acquainted with all the conditions nor time to remedy, in full, the faulty ones that already exist. A superintendent's work is not, nor can it be, of the nature of an earthquake or a cyclone, but it is line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little. It takes time to do anything worth doing. A house quickly built or thrown together soon goes to rack and ruin. Mushrooms spring up almost in a night and as quickly disappear.
I believe the citizens of North Hampton do not want weak, poor schools, but good strong ones. I believe they want the axe put into the roots of the condition giving poor
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schools. This is being done. I say this from my experience, -born and reared in the country, attended rural schools in Maine until sixteen, taught in rural schools for two years, principal of primary and grammar grades for eight years, besides the study of a superintendent's work under some of the leading educators of the country.
I believe the citizens of this good old town intended when they voted to have a superintendent and authorized their schoolboard to employ one, to give him an opportunity to use his knowledge and experience to improve their schools.
Your superintendent believes the boys and girls in your schools are as bright and as intelligent as they are else- where and just as capable of doing the same work and cov- ering the same ground as thoroughly as other schools. The eighth grade is expected to be prepared for examination for Hampton Academy. If they spend the whole year upon, say fractions or interest, where will they be in the rest of the subject matter? Other eighth grades do not spend a year upon these subjects, do you believe it necessary for the bright, intelligent boys and girls in your town? I don't. I want to give the children all we can and I know the fathers and mothers want their children to have every advantage possible.
In the eighth grade arithmetic, my purpose is to have the children go through the book during the fall and winter terms taking up the essentials, giving time to become thor- oughly acquainted with them and giving the entire spring term to reviewing the principles in which they are a little weak and to correlating and unifying the entire subject matter.
When a superintendent has given his suggestions and directions to his teacher, if some one tells the teacher not to do this but to keep the class the rest of the year upon one little principle if necessary, not according to the judgment of the superintendent, what is the result? Now if this happens again and again in various things and in various ways, what can the superintendent do or accomplish? As fast as he drives in a peg upon which his school is to climb higher, some one pulls it out, he cannot accomplish what he might.
It is sometimes necessary for teachers to resort to cor- poral punishment, but it should be the last resort and never used until all other means have failed. The teacher who
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constantly resorts to the strap, rattan, rule or other instru- ment for inflicting physical pain never should be a teacher of children. If she cannot, except in rare instances, obtain obedience without corporal punishment she is in the wrong business and should at once seek employment of a different nature.
A teacher should never, under any circumstances, give a pupil a blow upon the head with hand or any instrument. Many cases are on record where children have been made deaf by such a blow; then the risk of the eyes being injured by a misdirected blow, is too great.
I have watched the children in the schools and looked into their faces day after day and there is not a real bad boy or girl among the whole number. I believe there is need of very little corporal punishment in our schools; there ought not to be a dozen cases altogether in the three schools for the entire year.
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