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Salem,
Mary F. Ewins,
27 9 18
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E. A. Pabody. Rachel Bradford. Nathan R. Bodwell Louis Kelley.
Heart Failure. Phthisic, Cancer.
May, 10, « 12,
Philip Aver,
70 69
England,
56 11 Bath, Me.
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F
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Ivory Stewart. James Clark.
Mary Littlofield, Abagail Scott.
July, 20,1 Aug. 1, 66 14,
Mary A. Woodbury, Lewis A. Hunt,
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New York, IM
M
69
4 9 Andover, N.H'M
M
Jno. Tilton,
“ 24,
Daniel Tilton, Angella Benoit,
84
5| 1|Canada, 35 Salem, M
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Isiah Woodbury.
Josephine Kelley.
“6 27,
S MI Farmer.
M Shoemaker. James Hadley.
Esther Wolfenden, Elyza Stowell Dolly C. Cluff.
4 17,
Sarah Butterworth, Aaron S. Hadly, Ebenezer G. Duston, Reuben Dearbon,
81 10 19 Loudon, N. H. M
w Clergyman.
John J. Hunt.
Betsy Doris. Elyza Lundy. Mary Coburn.
Jan. 20,
61 . 5 10 salem,
Farmer,
19,
Daniel W. Robie,
71|10 17 Raymond,
21,
Barbara A. Head. Charles T. Merrill, 24
8 12 Salem,
M F
24
David C. Stevans,
Apr. 23,
Richard Taylor,
Dropsy of Heart. Phthisis. Diabetis. Chronic Gastrictes.
Dropsy. General Debility.
58 11 12
W W Carpenter.
59 2 11 Alton, N. H.
Phthisis. | Rheumatism. Apoplexy. Pertussis. Paralysis. Hem'ge of stomach.
I hereby certify that the above is correct, according to the best of my knowledge and belief. EDWARD D. BARSTOW, Town Clerk.
Bernard Corliss Hunt, Salem,
Place of Birth
27.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE
TOWN OF SALEM.
In accordance with the school law of New Hampshire, the School Board would herewith submit the following report : We think the schools of the town of Salem are in a good condition, in fact taken together as a whole, we believe the standard was never as high as it is today. The standard of public instruction has gradually advanced, and is still rising. The design of our public school is to supply elementary knowledge and to teach it with thoroughness. The discipline in our schools is good, and the School Board contends that there can be no permanent prosperity or real progress. unless the scholar is subject to rules. Where this does not exist the teacher is nothing, and the school is worth- less. It should be a discipline founded on respect. To have it perfect, there should be a willing obedience to authority without the display of passion. True discipline is something more than order. It is a cheerful submission on the part of the scholar to his teacher, not from fear. but from love. And the parents and guardians of the children should lend a helping hand to the teacher. From the parent the child receives almost everything that makes life pleasant, and everything that the parent does or says appears to the child as just and perfect. This being the case, how can a child have respect for a teacher if their parents speak disrespect-
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fully of her in their presence. And when the respect due the teacher is lost, the order is gone, and the school is a failure. It is known by all who know anything about schools, that a punctual and regular attendance is necessary, if the best results are to be obtained. When we are visiting a school and a scholar has made a failure in his lesson, the teacher sometimes tells us as an exten- uating circumstance, that the scholar has not been regular in his attendance. And we are not then surprised at his failure. When a scholar is absent from school he is not the only one who is in- jured. Every class of which he is a member is damaged. And we would say to the parents, do not allow your children to miss a single session of the school, for any cause except sickness, if you have any regard for the welfare of the school. Another draw- back to a school is tardiness. It annoys the teacher, disturbs and interferes with the discipline of the school, and in our opinion is a needless luxury. There are perhaps ten or twelve children in the town who do not fulfill the requirements of the law relating to school attendance. When we speak to the parents about it, they say they are going to send them, and they have been detained at home by sickness. or they have sent them somewhere else to school. We are of the opinion that the child who grows to man- hood or womanhood uneducated, is to be pittied. And to the par- ent we would say you are cruelly neglectful of your children. It is your interest as well as theirs that they should be educated. but if you will not send them to school, and send them willingly, and will not use your influence with them to respect the teacher, and obey the rules of the school, they would be a disturbing element, and the rest of the school would suffer more than your children would gain. This is said to you in a spirit of kindness. and we hope the coming year to see all of your children at school, and their names on the roll of honor next year. We cannot close this report without saying a few words about visiting schools. We feel proud to think that you could trust your children with the teachers that we have selected to teach them without visiting the schools and seeing for yourselves that everything was all right, but we think the schools suffer for want of visiting parents. And
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we would ask you as a special favor, to visit the school where your children attend, at least twice a term, and see for yourselves how they are taught. And we think if you will visit the schools that they attend, and witness the interest that the teacher takes in them, a feeling of respect and love for the teacher would enter your heart, that would be a help to her, and a great benefit to the school.
Statistics.
Whole number of scholars who have attended
school not less than two weeks,
295
Money raised by law,
$938 00
66 vote,
600 00
savings bank tax,
654 49
literary funds
322 07
sale of stove,
15 00
1
Town of Atkinson, tuition,
10 80
. Cash in School treasury, March 1, 1890,
601 24
$3,141 60
MATTHEW A. TAYLOR, School Board JOEL E. RICHARDSON, of
CLINTON L. SILVER, Salem, N. H.
30.
1 FINANCIAL REPORT.
Dr.
Cash in School treasury, March 1, 1890. $601 24
Rec'd from the town of Atkinson, 10 80
Rec'd from town treasurer, school tax, 1890, 2,514 56
Sale of stove, $15.00, Lumber, $4.00, Books $4.24, 23 24
Cr.
Paid wages of teachers,
$2,322 00
for fuel,
158 73
" janitors,
91 82
" supplies,
18 42
" repairs,
116 23
Cash in School treasurer's hands,
442 64
$3,149 84
Insurance.
Dr.
Received from Town Treasurer,
$154 00
Cr
Paid Geo. C. Gordon, Insurance on ten School houses, for 3 years,
$154 00
Digging Well in No. 6.
Cash on hand,
$75 00
Repairs.
Town appropriation,
$200 00
On hand March 1, 1890,
47 50
$247 50
Repairs on Furniture for No. 10 school house,
$200 00
$47 50
$3.149 84
31.
Town appropriation for books
$500 00
Paid Leach, Shewell & Sanborn :
200 Gilbert's Spellers,
$36 00
100 First Lessons in Arithmetic, (Greenleaf's,)
18 00
100 B. C.
31 00
100 Complete
62 00
25 Elementary Algebras
21 00
100 Goddard's Grammar, 50 00
100 Brand's Health Lessons, 25 00
50 Physiology, 21 50
Paid D. C. Heath & Co.
60 Primers,
12 50
100 Wright's Nature Readers, No. 1,
20 83
100 66 No. 2, .
29 17
100
66 No. 3,
37 50
50 Barnes' U. S. History, 41 67
66 doz. American Copy Books, 39 60
Supplies, 54 23
$500 00
M. H. TAYLOR, School Treasurer.
The undersigned having examined the foregoing accounts of the Treasurer of the School board for the year 1890, find them correctly cast, and vouchers were showed of all the items em- braced in said report.
L. W. TAYLOR, Auditor.
1
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ROLL OF HONOR.
Including the names of those pupils who have not been absent or tardy during the year :
School No. 1.
ALICE PERKINS,
CHARLES A. PALMER,
MINNIE F. RUSS, ELBERT A. SPURR.
School No. 2.
MARTHA P. HASELTINE. GERTRUDE E. HASELTINE CORA M. HASELTINE, WILLIAM HASELTINE.
School No. 4. LIZZIE E. GOODHUE.
School No. 5. PAUL W. FARR.
No. 6, Grammar. CHESTER WELLS.
School No. 7.
LOUISA M. ARMSTRONG, ETHEL J. ARMSTRONG.
School No. 8.
BETSEY LITTLEJOHN,
ARTHUR KELLEY.
School No. 10.
MABEL A. COLE,
ALICE G. PLUMMER.
33.
No. of Schools.
Terms.
Names of
Teachers.
No. of weeks.
No. of Pupils.
Av. Attendance
Not Absent.
Wages, per
Visits Sc'h'l B'd.
Visits of Others.
1 Spring. Fall.
Cora F. Taylor.
10 41
38
11
$36
4
49
10
40
37
11
36
3
37
Winter.
Matthew Harvey.
10
36
32
7
36
3
38
2 Spring. Fall.
66
66
12
11
10
5
24
2
10
Winter.
.6
8
10
8
4
24
3
4
3 Spring. Fall.
Emma B. Gordon.
10
22
20
18
0
24
2
9
Winter.
9
10
9
2
24 32
2
18
4 Spring. Fall.
Lucie G. Thompson.
10
33
29
9
32
4
27
Winter.
11
25
13
12
4
24
2
21
5 Spring. Fall.
May G. McClary. Jennie M. Wheeler.
11
12
10
2
24
4
28
Winter.
8
13
12
4
24
4
15
*6 Spring. Fall.
Sadie M. Woodman.
10
39
37
4
30
4
21
10
40
36
3
30
1
22
Winter.
Clara Ryder.
10
30
27
8
36
2
11
Winter.
10
27
25
3
36
4
12
7 Spring. Fall.
Dora L. Young.
11
20
16
5
24
2
35
11
19
17
·2
24
B
40
Winter.
8
14
12
2
24
4
21
8 Spring. Fall.
M. A. Silloway.
11
13
15
16
16
15
2
26
4
25
Winter.
Dora L. Young.
3
16
15
2
26
4
25
9 Spring. Fall.
Emmie C. Wesson.
11
14
10
9
0
24
2
5
Winter.
8
7
7
2
24
4
3
10 Spring.
Laura E. Taylor.
10
18
17
8
28
2
25
Fall. . . Abbie M. Chase.
8 18
17
11
28
3 21
Winter. Fannie Woodman.
12 22 21
10
28
4
30
*Primary.
+Grammar.
36
31
2
30
3
24
+6 Spring. Fall.
10
27
26
5
36
3
4
4
30
Winter.
3
15
2
26
4
25
8 Winter.
Ida M. Ryder.
2
11
1
24
2
2
11
8
7
6
24
2
4
5
24
2
2
3
Martha S. Oviatt.
9
35
30
7
32
4
32
24
9
7
26
20
11
12
14
3
26
10
20
8
11
L. V. Sherive.
12
Month.
9
11
34.
No. of Schools.
Terms.
No. in Reading
Spelling.
Penmanship.
Arithmetic.
Geography.
Grammar.
Composition.
Drawing.
Physiology.
Book-keeping.
Vocal Music.
Algebra.
Philosophy.
1 Spring.
41 41 31 27
6
8
8
10
2
Fall.
40
40
30 31
14
8
1
5
9
1
Winter.
36 36
5
8
8
5
5 8
2
5
Winter.
10
22
22
18 15
16 16
8
8
5
4
2
4
12
33
2
Winter.' 25
12
12
12
12
7
6
-2
3
7
11
5 Spring. Fall.
9
9
9
9
7
4
1
4
4
9
Winter. 12
7
4
6
12
*6 Spring.
39
39
39 39
22
Fall.
41
40
30 36 36
34
40
Winter. 36
36
28 28 27
26
36
16 Spring. 30
30 14
30
4 30
Fall.
27
27
27
20
20 14
8
6
4
6
4
6
Winter.
15
15
15 13
10 10
8
3
2
10
2
4 13
Fall.
16 16
16 12
12
3
2
7
2
3
16
Winter.
14
14
14 14
12
3
2
8
2
14
9 Spring. Fall.
14
4
7
7
4
1
1
10
6
7
7
4
6
Winter. 7
5
5
5
4
5
10 Spring. 18
Fall.
18
18
17 14
9
1
7
1
Winter. 21
21
21 21
9
8
£
9
1
21
*Primary.
¡Grammar.
4
16
12
1
2 Spring. Fall.
11 9
8
10 10
5
6
2 2
5
7
5
2
5
Winter. 10 30
30
24 26
9
7
6
8
Fall.
33
33 33 23
10
6
5 5
6
5
25
3 Spring. Fall.
20
20
10
25
25 18 8
12 12
9
4 39
27
0
Winter.
27 10 27 16 27
0 20
Fall.
19
19
19 15
7
4
6
5
4
4
1
8 Spring. 13
13
30 30 30
27 27
-0 27
9 27 24
27
27 27 26
7 Spring.
20
12
11 11
6
12
7
8
5
5
10
5
History. 2
6
6
18
16 14
8
4 Spring.
6
14
4
4
4 6
39
30
30 32
35.
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
To the inhabitants of the School District in the Town of Salem, qualified to vote in district affairs :
You are hereby notified to meet at the town hall on Saturday, the fourteenth day of March, 1891, at two o'clock in the afternoon, to act upon the following subjects :-
1. To choose a Moderator for the ensuing year.
2. To choose a Clerk for the ensuing year.
3. To choose a member of the School Board for the ensuing three years.
4. To hear the reports of agents, auditors, committees or officers heretofore chosen, and pass any vote relating thereto.
5. To choose agents, auditors and committees in relation to any subjects embraced in this warrant.
6. To see what sum of money the district will vote to raise for the support of schools in addition to the tax required by law.
7. By request, to see if the district will vote to return to the old district system.
8. By request, to see what action the district will take in regard to the funds in the old districts, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 10, and hear the reports of the former agents.
9. To see if the district will vote to repair its school houses, and raise money for the same.
10. To see what sum of money the district will vote to raise for the purchase of free text books.
Given under our hands at said Salem, this twenty-seventh day of February, 1891.
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