The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-16
Cumberland School Com
mittee Met Saturday.
Sefgt. Barbour Has Revised the
High School Course OF Studies.


Cumberland School Committee was held
Saturday afternoon. Messrs. CaufeId and
Hague were absent. Regular bills amount
Ing to s2z7S.65 were allowed and ordered
paid. supt. Barbour, In his regular
monthly report, stated there are several
applications for admission to the High
School and that he would have an exam
ination OF the candidates on Aug. 81.
He stated that he had revised the High
School course OF study In accordance with
the vote Of the committee at It's last meet
ing. The English course has been in
creased to four years and there will be
increased English studies In the classical
course. The study Of physiology will be
dropped as 1t is well taught In the gram
mar grades.
Bookkeeping will be taught at the close
OF the course instead of at the beginning.
supt. Barbour presented the following
Nble OF comparative statistics: Enroll
ment 1S96-96, 1874; 1S06-97, 1491; gain, 10
per cent; average number of pupils be-
longing In school 1So6-96, p96; 1608-97,
1859; gain, per cent; average attendance
1S96-96, 1856; 1s96-97, 9es; gain, 8 per cent. |;
percentage of attendance 1996-96, 50. I;
1S96-7, 90.5. The report was accepted.
Henry w. b. Arnold, former principal OF
the Lebanon Academy, N. H., was, upon
recommendation of Supt. Barbour, elected
principal Of the High School. Miss Annie
Gammons was appointed to the vacancy In
the Tingley, caused by the resignation OF
Miss Mary A. Blackwell.
The following statement from Town
Treasurer Taft, showing the money at the
disposal Of the committee, was read: Bal
ance April 30, s5S.S5; town appropriation,
$4,000; State grant, s3225.33; poll taxes,
s232; dog licenses, $5S5; tuition, 1850;
incidentals, As cents.
twas voted to begin the fall term Sept. z.
Remembered BY Friends.
John T. Connolly, who is about to start
| for Denver, Col, to attend the Supreme
Convention of the Foresters, was surprised
Saturday evening by number of his
friends of the Ashton Bicycle and Social
! club. During the evening Mr.. Connolly
was presented with an elegant meerschaum
pipe. Songs and recitations served to pass
the evening in pleasant manner.
Notes Of the Valley villages.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Jeffords of Valley
Falls have returned from visit to Bel
grade, Mass.
Hon. Andrew j. Currier and Charles r
Spring Of Valley Falls are registered al
Martha's Vineyard.
| The Lonsdale Co.'s mills started up thil
morning. 1t is rumored that there will b,
another shutdown in September.
On Labor Day two athletic teams, chosen
from the Ashton and Attleboro baseball
| clubs, will contest in series of sports.
Mrs. William H. Tobey and daughter
Ethel of Lonsdale have returned from 9
pleasant sojou-n at Popham Beach, Me.
Misses Sadie Connolly and Mary Healy
OF Ashton, who have been spending the
past week at Newport, returned home on
Saturday.
Miss Mamie Lane and John Hogan, two
popular young people of Valley Falls, will
be married at::St. Patrick's Church tomor-
row morning.
Timothy Earle of Valley Falls celebrated
his 77th birthday Saturday, and received
the congratulations of large number OF
friends and acquaintances.
Robert Morgan, formerly of the Airing
ton mills, Lawrence, Mass, has been en-
gagged as second hand in the spinning
department of the Ann and Hope mills.
James H, Caufield, agent at the Ashton
station, has returned to duty. Mr.. Cau-
| field has not entirely recovered from his
| recent illness, but his early return was
made imperative on account of the promo
| tion of assistant agent Cook.
Prof. Joseph Dignam, organist of st.
Patrick's Church, Valley Falls, is arrang-
ing the comic opera "Cox and Box" for
three male voices. The participants will
be Messrs. Dominick Brogan, James II.
Egan and Cornelius McCartin. The opera
will be given in the early fall.